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Symlink.chSymlink.ch is a mixture of Newsticker and Weblog in the German language in the manner of Slashdot.
Symlink.ch has began through an initiative of the Linux Users Group Switzerland for the reason to have a site like Slashdot aimed to european readers who know the German language.
External link
- http://www.symlink.ch
Weblog
A blog is a website for which an individual or a group frequently generates text, photographs, video, audio files, and/or links, typically (but not always) on a daily basis. The term is a shortened form of weblog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts," or "entries". The person who posts these entries is called a "blogger".
Blog basics
A weblog or blog is an online publication with regular posts, presented in reverse chronological order. A blog typically consists of the following components:
- Title - main title of the post
- Body - main content of the post
- Trackback - links back from other sites
- Comments - comments added by readers
- Category - category the post is labeled with (can be one or more)
- Permalink - the URL of the full, individual article
- Post Date - date: time the post was published
How Blogs differ from traditional sites
A blog provides many advantages over a standard web page, including these:
- It allows for easy creation of new pages: new data is entered into a simple form (usually with the title, the category, and the body of the article) and then submitted. Automated templates take care of adding the article to the home page, creating the new full article page (Permalink), and adding the article to the appropriate date- or category-based archive.
- It allows for easy filtering of content for various presentations - by date, category, author, or other attributes.
- It (usually) allows the administrator to invite and add other authors, whose permissions and access are easily managed.
Difference from forums or newsgroups
Blogs are different from forums or newsgroups. Only the author or authoring group can create new subjects for discussion on a blog. A network of blogs can function like a forum in that every entity in the blog network can create subjects of their choosing for others to discuss. Such networks require interlinking to function, so a group blog with multiple people holding posting rights is now becoming more common. Even where others post to a blog, the blog owner will initiate and frame discussion.
Digital media
While straight text and hyperlinks dominate, some blogs emphasize images (see web comics, photoblog) and videos (see videoblogging).
Some textual blogs link to audio files (see podcasting). A notable niche is the MP3 blog, which specializes in posting music from specific genres. New words have been coined for many of these content-oriented blogs, such as "moblog" (for "mobile blog").
History
Precursors
- Electronic communities existed before internetworking. For example the AP wire was, in effect, similar to a large chat room with "wire fights" and electronic conversations. Another pre-digital electronic community, amateur (or "ham") radio, allowed individuals who set up their own broadcast equipment to communicate with others directly. Ham radio also had logs called "glogs" that were personal diaries made using wearable computers in the early 1980s.
- Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, e-mail lists and bulletin boards. In the 1990s Internet forum software, such as WebX, created running conversations with "threads." Threads are topical connections between messages on a electronic "corkboard." See "Common terms," below.
- Diarists kept journals on the Web: most called themselves online diarists, journalists, journallers, or journalers. A few called themselves escribitionists. The Open Pages webring contained members of the online-journal community. The first famous journaller was probably Justin Hall.
- Other forms of journals kept online also existed. A notable example was game programmer John Carmack's widely read journal, published via the finger protocol.
- Websites, including both corporate sites and personal homepages, had and still often have "What's New" or "News" sections, often on the index page and sorted by date.
Blogging appears
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz. He broke the word weblog into the phrase "we blog" in the sidebar of his weblog in April or May of 1999. [http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000205.html] "Blog" was accepted as a noun (weblog shortened) and as a verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or a post to one's weblog"). [http://www.bradlands.com/weblog/1999-09.shtml#September%2010,%201999]
Justin Hall, who began eleven years of personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers. The site Xanga, launched in 1996, had only 100 diaries by 1997, and over 50 000 000 as of December 2005. Blog usage spread during 1999, being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted blog tools: Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launched Blogger.com (which was purchased by Google in February 2003), and Paul Kedrosky's started GrokSoup. As of March 2003, the Oxford English Dictionary included the terms weblog, weblogging and weblogger in their dictionary. [http://www.oed.com/help/updates/motswana-mussy.html]
Dave Winer is the one of the pioneers of the tools that make blogs more than merely websites. One of his most significant contributions was setting up servers that weblogs could ping to update themselves.
Blogging combined the personal web page with tools to make linking to other pages easier - specifically blogrolls and TrackBacks. This enabled bloggers to control the threads that connected them to others with similar interests, thereby wresting control from forum moderators.
Blogging's rise to influence
The first broadly popular american blogs emerged in 2001: Andrew Sullivan's AndrewSullivan.com, Ron Gunzburger's Politics1.com, Jerome Armstrong's MyDD, and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga's DailyKos.
In 2001, many blogs focused on comments by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Senator Lott, at a party honoring U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, praised Senator Thurmond by suggesting that the United States would have been better off had Thurmond been elected president (many years before). Through the influence of bloggers and mainstream journalists, Lott's comments were popularly seen as his approval of racial segregation, a policy supported by Thurmond's presidential campaign. As a result, Lott stepped down as majority leader.
By 2001, blogging was enough of a phenomenon that how-to manuals began to appear, primarily focusing on technique. The importance of the blogging community (and its relationship to larger society) gained rapidly increasing importance. Established schools of journalism began researching blogging and noting the differences between journalism and blogging.
Since 2003, blogs have gained increasing notice and coverage for their role in breaking, shaping, and spinning news stories. The Iraq war saw both left-wing and right-wing bloggers taking measured and passionate points of view that did not reflect the traditional left-right divide.
Blogging by established politicians and political candidates, to express opinions on war and other issues, cemented blogs' role as a news source. (See Howard Dean and Wesley Clark.) Meanwhile, an increasing number of experts blogged, making blogs a source of in-depth analysis. (See Daniel Drezner and J. Bradford DeLong.)
The Iraq war was the first "blog war" in another way: Iraqi bloggers gained wide readership, and one, Salam Pax, published a book of his blog. Blogs were also created by soldiers serving in the Iraq war. Such "milblogs" gave readers new perspectives on the realities of war, as well as often offering different viewpoints from those of official news sources.
Blogging was used to draw attention to obscure news sources. For example, bloggers posted links to traffic cameras in Madrid as a huge anti-terrorism demonstration filled the streets in the wake of the March 11 attacks.
Bloggers began to provide nearly-instant commentary on televised events, creating a secondary meaning of the word "blogging": to simultaneously transcribe and editorialize speeches and events shown on television. (For example, "I am blogging Rice's testimony" means "I am posting my reactions to Condoleezza Rice's testimony into my blog as I watch her on television.") Real-time commentary is sometimes referred to as "liveblogging."
Blogging is now very popular. It is not uncommon for a top-rated blog to receive tens of thousands of unique "visitors" per day.
Blogging becomes popular
In 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Even politicians not actively campaigning, such as MP Tom Watson of the UK Labour Party, began to blog to bond with constituents.
Minnesota Public Radio broadcast a program by Christopher Lydon and Matt Stoller called "The Blogging of the President," which covered a transformation in politics that blogging seemed to presage. The Columbia Journalism Review began regular coverage of blogs and blogging. Anthologies of blog pieces reached print, and blogging personalities began appearing on radio and television. In the summer of 2004, both (America's Democratic and Republican) parties' conventions credentialed bloggers, and blogs became a standard part of the publicity arsenal. Mainstream television programs, such as Chris Matthews' Hardball, formed their own blogs. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary declared "blog" as the word of the year in 2004. ([http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Blog_declared_Word_of_the_Year Wikinews])
Blogs were among the driving forces behind the "Rathergate" scandal. To wit: (television journalist) Dan Rather presented documents (on the CBS show 60 Minutes) that conflicted with accepted accounts of President Bush's military service record, conservative bloggers declared the documents to be forgeries and presented arguments in support of that view, and CBS apologized for what it said were inadequate reporting techniques. This is viewed by many bloggers as the advent of blogs' acceptance by the mass media both as a source of news and opinion and as means of applying political pressure.
Bloggers can act as consumer activists by reporting defective products. They were instrumental in exposing the supposed the vulnerability of Kryptonite 2000 locks.
Some bloggers have moved over to other media. The following bloggers (and others) have appeared on radio and/or television: Duncan Black (a.k.a. Atrios), Glenn Reynolds, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (a.k.a. Kos), and Ana Marie Cox (a.k.a. Wonkette). Hugh Hewitt is an example of a media personality who has moved in the other direction, adding to his reach in "old media" by being an influential blogger.
In the United Kingdom, The Guardian newspaper launched a redesign in September 2005, which included a daily digest of blogs on page 2.
In January 2005, Fortune magazine listed eight bloggers that business people "could not ignore": Peter Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason Goldman, Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis. [http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1011763-1,00.html]
Blogging and the traditional
Many bloggers support the Open Source movement. The free speech nature of its technology has helped blogging to have a deep social impact. Blogging makes is easy for employees to irritate their bosses, and a number have been fired. (See Heather Armstrong, Mark Jen and Jessica Cutler.)
Open Source Politics, or the ability of people to participate more directly in politics, is reframing terms of debate (see George Lakoff). Many bloggers differentiate themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working through a different channel. Some institutions see blogging as a means of "getting around the filter" and pushing messages directly to the public. Some critics worry that bloggers respect neither intellectual property nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible news.
Blogs have been seen as archives of human thought. They can provide useful insights to aid in dealing with humanity's psychological problems (such as depression and addiction). And they can also be used to solve crimes. (In 2005, a blogger's last blog entry identified his murderer.) [http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=ToTo247&tab=weblogs&uid=261268578]
Blogs have also had an influence on minority languages, bringing together scattered speakers and learners; this is particularly so with Scottish Gaelic blogs, whose creators can be found as far away from traditional Gaelic areas as Kazakhstan and Alaska. [http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/gaidhlig.html#comhradh] Blogs are also used regularly by Welsh language activists. Minority language publishing has traditionally been expensive and had small readership: blogs are counteracting this.
How blogs are made
Blogging software make blogs possible. These are some popular software packages: Nucleus CMS, Movable Type, Drupal, b2evolution, boastMachine, Antville, Serendipity and WordPress. A good program combines a user-friendly interface and format flexibility.
Server-based systems eliminate the need for bloggers to manage the software. With web interfaces, these systems allow travelers to blog from anywhere on the Internet.
A blogroll is a list of links that create a context for a blog. Bloggers with common interests will share a blogroll to help each other increase their visibility on the Internet.
A feedback comment system allows visitors to blogs to post comments. Frequent comments testify to popular blogs, but some bloggers prefer to pre-screen or block comments.
Tools such as Ecto, Elicit and w.bloggar allow users to maintain their Web-hosted blog without the need to be online while composing or editing posts.
The TrackBack feature introduced by Movable Type in 2002 enables mulitple blogs to be automatically notified when certain topical or other changes are made to one blog. (bBlog has gone as far as implementing threaded trackbacks on comments and comments on trackbacks.)
Linking between blogs is credited with complicating search engine page ranking techniques. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33366.html] [http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/10/its_all_about_c.shtml] Integrating blogs into search results threatens websites that are arguably more credible. (However, as one Google executive may have remarked, it is the search engine's job to find the ways that a website represents a "vote" for another website.)
Some Web hosting companies (Tripod), Internet service providers (America Online) and online publications (Salon) provide blog creation tools and blog hosting.
Some people program blogs from scratch using ColdFusion, CGI, pure Ruby, Rails or other server side software. While this is difficult, the creativity can be rewarding.
Types of blogs
News and Politics
When discussed in the media, the term blog is often understood to refer to a political blog. Political blogs take different forms. Some link to news articles and post personal comments. Others write long essays about current political topics.
Noteworthy is the recent trend of political candidates to incorporate blogging in their campaigns. Some candidates do their own blogging, while others, especially presidential candidates, assign blogging to campaign staff.
Personal
In common speech, the term blog is often used to describe an online diary or journal, such as LiveJournal. The blog format allows inexperienced computer users to make diary entries with ease. People blog poems, prose, illicit thoughts, complaints, daily experiences, and more, often allowing others to contribute. In 2001, mainstream awareness of online diaries increased dramatically.
Online diaries are part of the daily lives of many teenagers and college students. Friends use blogs to communicate with each other.
Topical
Topical blogs focus on a niche. For example, the Google Blog covers nothing but news about Google.
A blogs may fit more than one topical category or may be both topical and general. Blog directories must manage the needs of bloggers, who want to increase readership, and readers, who want relevant search results.
Local blogs are a type of topical blog. Neighborhood reporting is ideal for blogging: Locals are the best witnesses of local events.
Business
The stock market is a popular subject of blogging. Both amateur and professional investors use blogs to share stock tips.
Business blogs are used to promote and defame businesses, to argue economic concepts, to deseminate information, and more.
Collaborative
Many blogs are written by more than one person (often about a specific topic). Collaborative blogs can be open to everyone or limited to a group of people. MetaFilter is an example.
Slashdot, whose status as a blog has been debated, has a team of editors who approve and post links to technology news stories throughout the day. Although Slashdot does not refer to itself as a blog, it shares some characteristics with blogs.
Indymedia is an early (1999) example of a collaborative blog (although the term blog wasn't in circulation then). It was created to cover a specific event (the WTO in Seattle) but has since spread around the world.
"Eclectic blogs" focus on specific (and unusual) niches. Eclectic blogs can be collaborative blogs.
Educational
Students can use blogs to record what they learn and teachers can use blogs to record what they teach. For example, a teacher can blog a course - specifying what homework students are required to carry out, including links to Internet resources, and recording day-by-day what is taught. This application has many advantages: (1) a student can quickly catch-up if they miss a class; (2) the teacher can use the blog as a course plan; and (3) the blog serves as an accurate summary of the course that prospective students or new teachers can refer to. Blogging can also be used to record class excursions and to create electronic "scrapbooks" of student life.
Directory
Directory blogs provide regularly-updated links to topics of interest. Directory blogs are usually focused on a particular news topic.
Directory blogs are not "blog directories." Blog directories (and search engines used for blogging) have organization and automation, characteristics not typical of directory blogs.
Forums
An internet forum is not a blog (technically speaking), but a blog can function as an internet forum. Internet forums typically allow any user to post (into the discussion). Blogs typically limit posting to the blogger or to the blogger and approved others.
The distinction between blogs and forums is sometimes gray. Sites such as Slashdot, Indymedia and Daily Kos combine elements of the two.
Business professionals use Content management systems to enable cooperation when making documents.
Spam
Spam blogs (splogs) are a form of high-pressure advertising. Like spam e-mails, splogs are characterized by bold lettering and outrageous claims. Affiliated splogs often link to each other to increase their Internet presence (See PageRank.)
Common terms
Blogging, like any human practice, has developed a specialized vocabulary. See List of blogging terms.
See also
- Content Management System
- Blog client
- Blogebrity
- Commonplace: a historical precedent for the weblog
- Diary
- Google bomb
- News aggregator
- Iranian blogs
- Podcasting
- Chronicle
- Massively distributed collaboration
External links
- [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15000 Handbook for Bloggers and Cyberdissidents] by [http://www.rsf.org/ Reporters Without Borders]
- [http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/ Legal Guide for Bloggers] by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2707 "Web of Influence"] — by Daniel W. Drezner, Henry Farrell from [http://www.foreignpolicy.com Foreign Policy Magazine]
- [http://www.offuhuge.com/ Worlds First Music Video Code Site 4 Blogs]
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Slashdot
Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website, updated many times daily with articles that are short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each story. Front page stories generally receive at least 70 such comments, with especially popular or controversial articles reaching totals of more than 1,000. The site resembles a blog in many ways, albeit with threaded comments. The summaries for the stories are generally submitted by Slashdot's own readers with editors accepting or rejecting these contributions for general posting. The site also sometimes features movie or book reviews, interviews, and "Ask Slashdot": queries from users requesting information from the readership.
The site's slogan is "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." Slashdot is often criticized for posting story summaries that are inaccurate and/or misspelled, and for intentionally posting articles that many find highly biased, and/or defamatory and often incite flamewars, while ignoring news or commentary on issues which outsiders may consider more serious or important (see Slashdot subculture). It is also infamous for the Slashdot effect, when thousands of Slashdot readers read an article and connect to the linked website, flooding it with unexpected traffic, and at times bringing the site down in a manner similar to a Denial of Service attack. The use of "slashdot" as a verb refers to this effect.
Officially, the name "Slashdot" was chosen to confuse those who tried to spell the URL of the site (h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org.)
Administration
URL
Created in September 1997 by Rob Malda, Slashdot is now owned by the Open Source Technology Group, part of VA Software. The site is run primarily by Malda, Jeff "Hemos" Bates (who handles articles and book reviews and sells advertising) and Robin "Roblimo" Miller who helps handle some of the more managerial tasks of the site, as well as posting stories. (See Slashdot history).
The software that runs Slashdot is called Slash or slashcode and is released under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License. Many other websites use various customized versions of this software for their own web forums.
Audience
While Slashdot's core audiences are often said to consist of Linux enthusiasts and various other enthusiasts of the open source software movement, there is a significant Windows audience as well. A poll on Slashdot suggests that approximately half of all Slashdot visitors use a Microsoft Windows operating system, a third use some form of Linux, and above ten percent use Mac OS X. Polls on Slashdot, like most on the Internet, are notoriously unreliable. Collecting user-agent information provided by the users' browser is generally more reliable than the polls; however, it shows a far smaller percentage of Microsoft customers and a far greater number of Linux and Mac desktop users than the internet at large. However, many Slashdot stories are related to Microsoft Windows video games or applications, or Microsoft security bulletins. The ongoing assumption that Slashdot is Linux-oriented comes both from historical reasons and from its famous Gates "Borg" icon. Additionally, OS results may be skewed by the fact that many Slashdot users access the site from work, and only use Linux on their home computers.
Famous or well-known "Slashdotters" include actor Wil Wheaton (username "[http://slashdot.org/~CleverNickName CleverNickName]"), id Software technical director John Carmack (username "[http://slashdot.org/~John%20Carmack John Carmack]"), ReiserFS creator Hans Reiser (username "[http://slashdot.org/~hansreiser hansreiser]") and open source evangelist Bruce Perens (username "[http://slashdot.org/~Bruce%20Perens Bruce Perens]"). Also noteworthy is the participation of several engineers from NASA involved in the Mars rover exploration projects.
Comments
Moderation
To prevent abusive comments, a moderation system has been implemented whereby every comment posted (including those posted anonymously) can be "moderated" up or down by chosen moderators, changing the post's score likewise. Moderation points added to a comment are also added to a user's karma score. Having high karma gives added bonuses to users, such as the ability to autopost at higher starting values. Conversely, users with low karma have penalties imposed on them. People that post comments designed to get more karma, for example mirroring a linked article, are sometimes referred to as karma whores. Those who can moderate are selected by their karma score and number of meta moderations (and maybe other criteria). Slashdot editors, including CmdrTaco, can moderate limitlessly. Moderator access for non-editors is time limited (to a few days) and the number of 'mod points' one gets is limited (to a max of 5 points at the time of this writing).
A given comment can have any integer score from −1 to +5, and Slashdot users can set a personal threshold where no comments with a lesser score are displayed. (For example, a person browsing the comments at a threshold of 1 will not see comments with a score of −1 or 0 but will see all others.) Moderators have been known to abuse the ability to increase or decrease the score of comments, and in some cases entire threads of comments have been marked down to −1. Subsequently, a meta-moderation system was implemented to moderate the moderators and help contain abuses.
Trolling
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As one of the largest forums on the Internet, trolling and spamming on Slashdot is a highly evolved phenomenon (see Slashdot trolling phenomena). It is an offbeat and complex subculture involving sometimes repetitive and sometimes obscene comments featuring a mixture of Slashdot celebrities and other unusual juvenilia.
There are many famous personalities from Slashdot's older trolling community. Craig McPherson, for example, started the well-known hot grits and naked and petrified memes while OSM and Trollaxor specialized in bizarre creative fiction regarding various Slashdot and Free/Open Source Software personalities. SpiralX, Streetlawyer/John Saul Montoya (jsm), Signal 11, Dumb Marketing Guy (dmg), Seventy Percent, 80md and others typified the classic sense of trolling both under their well-known monikers and a bevy of pseudonyms (or "sock puppets"). While all of the aforementioned may be well-known to Slashdotters, the earliest repeat offender was "MEEPT". Prior to MEEPT's stream of consciousness posts, Slashdot did not require posters to log in in order to attribute a post to a name. MEEPT was one of the last straws that brought about username/password logins and eventually moderation.
Other less-sophisticated forms of Slashdot trolling—often referred to as crapflooding—include posting of one-liners, ASCII art, and other materials. Several of these trolls set up Geekizoid, a site devoted to exploring and fostering crapflooding memes. Members of the aforementioned classic trolling group created Adequacy.org and continued their formula there until its closing. Another site where trolls gather is [http://www.anti-slash.org Anti-Slash] where trolls come to wage jihad on Slashdot.
The Slashdot editors are sometimes accused of posting (and even preferring) stories that are, themselves, thinly-disguised trolls, which encourage large numbers of postings in response, of lending unjustified credence to pseudo-science, and of accepting kickbacks to post certain stories.
The "pink page of death" is an infamous feature applied to IP addresses that have been used to access Slashdot many times in a short period. It often appears on proxies used for crapflooding, although occasionally blocks innocent users. The name "pink page of death" is a reference to the Microsoft Windows Blue Screen of Death, and prevents users from accessing the site.
Criticism
Critics claim that the quality of materials found on Slashdot has decreased during 2005. Readers commonly complain about reposts (also known as dupes), meaning the moderators approve articles for the frontpage that have already appeared on the site, sometimes weeks or merely days ago, possibly under a different subject, but essentially with the same content. This suggests the moderators may not always read the articles they accept for publication. Readers have called for mandatory procedures to search for Slashdot dupes before an article is published.
Increasingly frequent presence of articles that many consider to be thinly veiled advertisements offends a significant portion of Slashdot readers. These articles usually receive a large number of trolling comments, including insults towards the moderators. Similarly, otherwise trivial reseach or long established facts are sometimes presented on Slashdot as bona fide articles, just because they are wrapped in a marketable write-up or carry a deceptive subject line, much to the dismay of specialist readers. Experts on the topic often blast such stories with lengthy, insightful tirades.
Since the selection of articles for Slashdot publication is conducted in a non-transparent manner, many readers who submit story candidates are offended when the particular story they provided appears weeks later, under the credit of another contributor. This may institue an infringement on the original submitter's prior research and the lack of credit where due discourages readers from further contributing to Slashdot's story candidate pool. Readers have called for implementing a mechanism that makes sure only the originial submitter is credited or alternatively all co-submitters are verbosely credited.
Similar sites
English language:
- Ars Technica: Technology and science news, typically with fewer stories but longer analysis and relevancy.
- Digg: Technology news submitted by registered users of digg.com, usually spelled "digg.com" with a lower case letter 'd'.
- Everything2: Database run by Slashdot founders.
- Kuro5hin: An alternative discussion site founded and visited by Slashdot expatriates.
- Plastic.com: A forum running on SlashCode covering news, media, politics, and other subjects.
- [http://www.phillyfuture.org Philly Future]: A locally focused Philadelphia citizen journalism hub managed with methodologies similar to Slashdot.
- Technocrat.net: A similar forum to Slashdot, intended to be more mature, managed by Bruce Perens. [http://www.technocrat.net Technocrat.net]
Slash clones:
- Mashdot: Virtual Journal Club
Non-English:
- Barrapunto (Spanish language)
- Gildot (Portuguese language)
- Linuxfr (French language)
- PuntBarra (Catalan language)
- Symlink.ch (German language)
- Tweakers.net (Dutch language)
- GeekNet.nl (Multi-Lingual)
- [http://www.solidot.org] (Chinese)
References
# [http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm150 Slashdot FAQ: What does the name "Slashdot" mean?]
# [http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=848&aid=-1 Slashdot Poll: My Main Computer Runs...] (2002)
# [http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167489&cid=13965637 "THIS IS FUCKING EMBARRASSING"], comment posted November 7, 2005 in response to the story [http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/06/1923218 "New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory?"]
# [http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134092&cid=11192313 "Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot"], comment posted December 27, 2004 in response to the story [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1332206 "DURL, a Search Tool for del.icio.us"]
# [http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165634&cid=13816678 "Slashdot software broken, bans entire subnets"], comment posted October 18, 2005 in response to the story [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/18/1248229 "Designer on Slashdot Overhaul Plans"]
External links
- [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot front page]
- [http://slashdot.jp/ Slashdot Japan] — the Japanese version of Slashdot
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