Hmmm... slashdot vs. digg
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| cjcox Mar 12, 2006 11:54 AM EDT |
The general point is that digg is the future of slashdot (if you will). However, I find that the articles that make to the digg front page are probably the most childish articles on the internet. Not saying that Slashdot is great, but Slashdot's moderation apparently keeps there from being a "Isn't CSS cool and Neato!!" from making the front page EVERY single day. Neither are perfect, but if I had to vote today based on FRONT page news... digg's going to lose (most of the time). Comparson of stories right now: Digg.. * First iPod ad * Photos of the "Alien Cells" Found in Red Rain * Black Diamond concept from Sony Ericsson * 11 Unix Tricks * How to Run Linux on a USB Storage Device * Google - A Rare Look At How They Do It * New James Bond movie: no Q, no Moneypenny, fewer gadgets, and no CGI. * New Super Mario Bros DS Screenshots * How To Improve Your Study Habits and Remember Better * Can't download that video? Now you can. * DHTML Goodies - Amazing DHTML and AJAX Code This is actually a surprising news day.. no CSS article (sometimes there are two). However, lately there have been as many DHTML/AJAX articles as CSS... so I think that's probably the new "non-story" to hate on digg. Slashdot: * EFF Pushes Consumers to Claim Rootkit Compensation * Videogames Used to Treat ADHD * Opera 9.0 Fully Passes ACID2 Test * Music Based on Fibonacci Sequence and Stock Market * Symantec Rethinks Firefox vs IE Vulnerabilities * Internet Searches Reveal CIA's Secrets * Digital Cinema Not Quite There Yet * What is UNIX, Anyway? * Hyperdrive and Space Propulsion * Fossil Rises From its Grave Not a great Slashdot day.. but certainly standing strong against the list of articles from digg. Can someone point out the superiority of digg again to me? Now... just based on the "social" issue of digg... one could argue that the 200+ that voted that everyone needed to see the first IPod Ad, represent what everyone on the planet is truly interested in.... but I didn't think it was that interesting myself. I guess since I was raised on Donkey Kong, that an article about the new Super Mario Bros is midly nostalgic. Digg... young (very) people clicking on things that they think are uber-cool. Slashdot, geeks (many getting old) directing you to things they things are still cool (and often times aren't). The comments on the articles to digg represent a teen (or earlier) mindset IMHO. Slashdot's aren't much better... but since comments are moderated, the really lame ones go away... they tend to show up on digg however. I think it's a toss up folks. If there is a benefit to digg is that your votes and articles "matter".. unlike Slashdot where your last name has to something military, fast food and Mexican in order to get your article to the front page. I look at both though. Time will tell if digg will kill off slashdot or not. This is not the first time that a digg-like thing has come around with folks saying "This is the end of Slashdot"... and where are those other sites now?? |
| tadelste Mar 12, 2006 12:15 PM EDT |
Chris, Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I can always count on you for insight and articulate expression. That's one of the things I enjoy about you. I think you made excellent points. I wish you'd become an editor. BTW, everything you argued with me about SUN - it all came true. In the article, I wanted to primarily address Linux advocacy issues not the quality of the other articles. I agree, neither are perfect. I just prefer the readers voting rather than Commander Taco. I keep a list of friends and I never get enough diggs to push an article to the front page. I also don't submit just LXer articles. I have a number that are on other sites like Tectonic, Howtoforge, ZDnet, O'Reilly and so forth. My overall ranking at Digg is 147 and I just found it in November. I only submit Linux and Free Software articles. That's all! Looking at your list, "What is UNIX Anyway" is old news. It was on Digg days ago and here days ago. That's besides the point. I see an agenda at Slashdot. Evolution and the environment. I'm not looking for ultra left wing eco terrorist mombo jumbo which is practically all I see at Slashdot. I don't have to read any articles at either sight that I don't want to read. But, I see multiples of Linux articles at Digg and nothing at Slashdot. This article deals only with Linux news not the CIA, etc. which I mentioned in the beginning. I think the issue is pretty clear. No Linux news and I am not interested. I see three Linux articles on Digg of the ones you mentioned above. I see none on Slashdot. Interesting. The end of my article says: Who really knows? If you go to post a submission at Slashdot under the Linux section, the topics are old, old - like in Caldera. As the Righteous Brothers once sang, "You've Lost that Loving Feeling, now it's gone, gone, gone." I would change the next line to, nothing here, move on. :) |
| cjcox Mar 12, 2006 3:26 PM EDT |
Oh.. slashdot is full of old stories and duplicates... sigh... yes.. it goes on and on.. I couldn't agree more. I really wasn't trying to come to their defense that much... just saying that digg has some issues too (of course, nothing is perfect). Which is why I look at both. At least a "normal" (non military, Mexican fast food) person can get a story dug to the top at digg :) I guess you could say I dig digg because posts are dug wheras they get buried at slashdot and there's no shovel. But sometimes people dig weird things. |
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