Posts Tagged ‘Slashdot
Slashdot: Slowing Rotting from the Inside Out
Sometime ago, say, 1999, Slashdot was the king of the online tech world. In fact, from a “hits” standpoint, they may still be, if not second to Digg. Slashdot has always been the first big blog-style tech site, long before the word “blog” meant anything to anyone, and somehow, Rob Malda and crew [...]
User Generated Content Usually Sucks
This goes to show how worthless digg.com comments can be. Nearly every comment is dugg down. C’mon, are these the kinds of comments that people feel they should take the time to type and submit. Do they think other people will get joy from reading them?
Read this comments on this inane, [...]
Pwned!
Hilarious
Bye-Bye Slashdot, Hello IG
Today is a fairly big day, well, at least for my internet habits. When I launch a browser and open up my tabs, they look like this:
Gmail|Slashdot|OSNews|My Yahoo!|Work|Bloglines|Digg
I’ve added to the tabs in the last year or two: I added the work tab (email when at home, our helpdesk at work), then added Bloglines [...]
$5 to /.
I paid the 5 bones to get a slashdot subscription recently and I’m actually pretty happy about it. Even though a big portion of the slashdot crowd ticks me off for being elitist, tech-geek, competitive jerk offs, it’s still my favorite news site. The features, which mainly include turning off ads and getting [...]
