On 6/20/05, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Miller wrote: > Way too much of what passes as commercial tech journalism is nothing > more than reformatted press releases. But much of the really > interesting stuff is being done by people who don't have PR flacks, > and that's the stuff I want to see. > Yes, mos' def, but slashdot is not the place to find the cool stuff any more, and the editors are a known quantity and can reliably be expected to run certain types of stories a fact that PR flacks have not failed to notice. Any more slashdot is trapped by it's own image and is slowly becoming a parody of itself. (that and the comments have to be generated by a perl script since humans would presumably come up with the occasional new joke)
> The amateur/reader-created news sites are a lot better at finding and > printing the really interesting stories. That's because the publisher > is passionate -- a zealot -- about the subject matter. The price we > pay is that the content is not sanitized, and the zeal shows through. > For me, it's well worth that price. My solution has been to tap into a couple of the social bookmark sites and use them as a distributed recommendation engine, it works in that you find the new stuff more quickly (del.icio.us/popular beats slashdot to the story by days or weeks usually) and somewhat broader focus. > > BTW, there's another Linux news site I recommend: Linux Weekly News, > lwn.net. The editor, Jonathan Corbet, is definitely a zealot (and > a kernel developer). But the articles and the reader comments are > less juvenile than you-know-where. LWN is also much more tightly > focused on Linux. > You may also want to check out http://radar.oreilly.com/ to see what can happen with multiple plugged in people who actually think about technology. -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
