Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] MU Research Makes /. Front Page

["Venkat Chandra" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Another good source of technology/science/engineering news similar to Slashdot is http://www.technocrat.com. It is maintained by Bruce Perens - a prominent proponent of OSS/FSF. You can read more about him here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Perens. Here's what it says on Technocrat's webpage:

Another of our roots is a similar site called Slashdot.org . Slashdot played a formative role as the community voice of Open Source / Free Software during a time of tremendous growth in that community. Unfortunately, Slashdot has more recently abdicated that role to become, in the words of its editors, "a geek culture site". We recognise the lure of the mass-market. As we write this, Slashdot is within the top 300 sites on the web by readership, and we congratulate them. But the serious work is going to need to go on elsewhere. We're taking up that flag.

Another issue with Slashdot is immaturity. It's rife with trolls and other detriments to the signal-to-noise ratio. We start out on a path to improve the level of discussion over that in Slashdot by eschewing the "Anonymous Coward" who is rampant there. If you don't want to take responsibility for your words, they don't belong here. We encourage you to put your full name in your login, and participate in all discussion as a known individual. We will take other measures to maintain the highest possible quality of discussion as they become necessary.

- VC

 

On 11/30/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > On 11/29/06, Mike Miller <
> EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Nathan Odle wrote:
> >>
> >> > Not that I'm a fan of Slashdot (because I'm not)
> >>
> >> Why not?  I think it's good as a source of interesting news.  Many of
> >> the comments suck, but I search for those rated "Score:5, I" and
> >> usually get a few good ideas from them (when they are about computers
> >> anyway).
> >>
> >> What is better than Slashdot?  I'll go there instead.
> >
> > http://reddit.com/
> >
> > It grows on you.  It pretty much points to a superset of what Slashdot
> > will feature, but usually much more quickly. The interface is much
> > cleaner, and it works especially well with "type to find" under Firefox.
>
> I can see why you like it.  I've been using the RSS feed from /. in
> Firefox.  That, in a way, gives an even cleaner interface than Reddit.
>
> Mike
>
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