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I got a house in the hamptons for helping out, but otherwise, yeah, this is an unpaid gig. :) Most of us started off just being forum members who had a particularly good way of either controlling information, dealing with specific issues, or had a particularly keen sense of what was fact vs. fiction.

As for how often we all meet in person, other than via iChat/Skype, I've personally only met one of the moderators face to face, simply because we live close enough together and happened to be in the same place at the same time that it worked out. Otherwise, I only know the rest of the gang from online. For the most part, we could all be sitting next to each other in a room, and probably would have no idea who was who. I guess nametags would help...
 
considering the large portion of US viewers, I can see if verizon got the phone to put that on the front page since it would impact many viewers. I prefer quality over quantity in terms of stories and rumors.
That's about the only iPhone news I would care about, our plumber had an iPhone that was as useful as an iPod touch at our house because there was no AT&T signal at our house, and that was outside too.
 
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