Re: [seul-edu] Slashdot or Linux & Education

["Joseph E. Arruda [mr.zenn]" <z@valinux.com>]

Doug Loss wrote:
> 
> You know, I've pretty much given up on trying to contribute to
> Slashdot.

I haven't...but I have my filters set to 1.

>  They don't seem to accept new stories except if they come
> from their personal friends or are of personal interest to them.

Well, in Rob and Jeffs defense....

1. It's their site, they can of course prefer to put stories they like
(i.e. Hemos kick with Nano-tech, and Jeffs Aibo fetish)
2. I've been friends with both of them for almost 2 years and I still
haven't had a story posted ;)
3. I do know that their submission queue is longer than the autobahn...

>  And
> the S/N ratio in the comments is so low as to make it hardly worth
> wading through to find anything worth reading.

I agree that the sig2noize ratio has gotten to usenet proportions...its
unfortunate but I felt bad setting myself to 1.  But there are only so
many Natalie Portman and grits comments one can take...

>  I find LinuxToday, Linux
> Daily News, Kuro5hin, Advogato, and Technocrat much more useful and
> interesting.
> 

Technocrat is good, as is the daily Register, and I still go to wired
(to see how long it takes until the rest of the world to catch up) ;)

z

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