Time Is Tight

Well-worth-reading summation of the GiveWell astroturfing controversy on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s website.
Meanwhile, the GiveWell, or Give ‘em Hell? thread rages on on MetaTalk.

GiveWell or Give ‘em Hell: The 26-year-old founder of GiveWell, a sort of charity 2.0 startup, is caught astroturfing AskMetaFilter and other weblogs. On AskMetaFilter, he created two accounts to ask and then answer a question on end-of-year donations, recommending his own organization and maligning hits competitors. He didn’t reveal his involvement until caught [...]

I was going to write about last night’s MetaFilter meetup, but filmgojuan said everything I could have and took better pictures, too.
Update: Here’s my pics, anyway. I only got three, which I merged together like so:
From left: filmgoerjuan, jeffj, mathowie, Dave “CSS Zen Garden” Shea, jokeefe, and jokeefe’s freind Elaine. antifreez_ and I are out [...]

A small but extremely congenial group of Vancouver metafiltarians met at the Sylvia last night. I have pictures.

Thanks Matt! I really appreciate it.