You know, Slashdot’s web address is not actually http:///.
The problem with Slashdot is that they’ll have an interesting story which will disappear as new stories push it down the page, like a blog. Digg stories stay near the top as long as people are clicking the “digg” button. Digg just doesn’t have the sense of community yet. I read Slashdot for the comments more than links, Digg is more about getting a ton of interesting links in your face as fast as possible.
Slashdot would probably be more profitable than Digg, all things equal, because Digg is sending you to other sites, Slashdot keeps you there, reading a discussion. Sticky eyeballs and what-not.
I think that this was inevitable as Slashdot’s “editor controled” ethos got supllanted by using repuation/voting at the earliest stages of content aggregation (as Digg does). Plus Slashdot has been awfully stale as of late. I like Digg, but I also thing it is a bit too precious sometimes. Its a natural signal noise thing though, and more often than not I find cool things through digg that I might have missed everywhere. Sometimes the algorithm does appear slightly arbitrary.
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You know, Slashdot’s web address is not actually http:///.
The problem with Slashdot is that they’ll have an interesting story which will disappear as new stories push it down the page, like a blog. Digg stories stay near the top as long as people are clicking the “digg” button. Digg just doesn’t have the sense of community yet. I read Slashdot for the comments more than links, Digg is more about getting a ton of interesting links in your face as fast as possible.
Slashdot would probably be more profitable than Digg, all things equal, because Digg is sending you to other sites, Slashdot keeps you there, reading a discussion. Sticky eyeballs and what-not.
Broken URL.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=6m&size=large&compare_sites=slashdot.org,%20del.icio.us&y=t&url=digg.com
I think that this was inevitable as Slashdot’s “editor controled” ethos got supllanted by using repuation/voting at the earliest stages of content aggregation (as Digg does). Plus Slashdot has been awfully stale as of late. I like Digg, but I also thing it is a bit too precious sometimes. Its a natural signal noise thing though, and more often than not I find cool things through digg that I might have missed everywhere. Sometimes the algorithm does appear slightly arbitrary.
barrier of entry is very easy now. It just take 2 days of coding to create 50% of digg at http://www.opida.com