Comments on: Slashdotted http://peteashdown.org/journal/2006/01/05/slashdotted/ Fast Forward the Future Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:39:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kevin Delaney http://peteashdown.org/journal/2006/01/05/slashdotted/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Kevin Delaney Mon, 16 Jan 2006 05:53:44 +0000 http://peteashdown.org/journal/?p=44#comment-124 The fact that there's skilled marketers and technocrats dedicated to getting news stories slashdotted shows how popular "community" sites can and are being exploited. It is a little bit scary. Scoring a link from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ashdown" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> is the same. It does a great deal to shift the topology of the net. Sadly, I worry that the focus of the net has shifted completely from how to build a good information sources to ways to manipulate those that do pop up. In other words, I hope people are reading this site thinking that they've got to get out and manipulate the system to succeed. The fact that there’s skilled marketers and technocrats dedicated to getting news stories slashdotted shows how popular “community” sites can and are being exploited. It is a little bit scary.

Scoring a link from the Wikipedia is the same. It does a great deal to shift the topology of the net.

Sadly, I worry that the focus of the net has shifted completely from how to build a good information sources to ways to manipulate those that do pop up. In other words, I hope people are reading this site thinking that they’ve got to get out and manipulate the system to succeed.

]]> By: Larry Edgar http://peteashdown.org/journal/2006/01/05/slashdotted/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Larry Edgar Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:01:07 +0000 http://peteashdown.org/journal/?p=44#comment-123 most voters are not web up! most voters are not web up!

]]> By: Larry Edgar http://peteashdown.org/journal/2006/01/05/slashdotted/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Larry Edgar Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:58:39 +0000 http://peteashdown.org/journal/?p=44#comment-122 Nice page- photo poll,great ide- use it in issue info! Nice page- photo poll,great ide- use it in issue info!

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