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Several people submitted and emailed that Slashdot has won Cool Zine Site of the Year (the page says 1998 but that is definitely wrong- we didn't win squat last year *grin*) from Cool Site of the Day (the original one, not one of the trillion knockoffs) so thanks to everyone who voted for us. A few people emailed me to congratulate me. I guess get a statuette of some form that I can use as a commemorative doorstop or something. Neat. I'll post pictures when it shows up if I'm bored.

Several people submitted and emailed that Slashdot has won Cool Zine Site of the Year (the page says 1998 but that is definitely wrong- we didn't win squat last year *grin*) from Cool Site of the Day (the original one, not one of the trillion knockoffs) so thanks to everyone who voted for us. A few people emailed me to congratulate me. I guess get a statuette of some form that I can use as a commemorative doorstop or something. Neat. I'll post pictures when it shows up if I'm bored.

I tell ya, the end of the year is when all the cheesy awards things come out of the woodwork. First off, you can still vote for Slashdot as Cool Site of the Year. First prize is a new guitar (mmmm). Next Newswire has named Slashdot as winner of the "Community" section of it's Big 14 roundup. tapwater wrote in to say that The Guardian ranked us as one of the Top 10 Sites of 98. Modbuster wrote in to tell us that PlanetClick.com gave us 'Coolest Site'. Finally Norman Jordan says that @Home Network gave Slashdot a five star rating and ranked it as the best site overall for 1998.

Once again I have some award things that I feal obligated to mention. If you're not interested, skip down, click the link below to read some mussings on Slashdot CDs and a Slashdot Magazine. I really want feedback on this stuff. The main one is Cool Site of the Year which has a Guitar that I want as First Prize, so go vote. You're allowed to vote every day. Nathan Machula wrote in to tell us that we're once again in ZDNet's Top 100 websites. You'll enjoy the new review of the site. Ngeran wrote in to tell us that Slashdot was on NetCenter's What's New page. We're almost a year and a half old, but they gave us a '9' for content. DPI is doing some award thing for the end of the year. Apparently you can vote for Slashdot, I don't think I win a guitar from this one *grin*. Please click the link below and read the rest of this story. It is quite important to the future of Slashdot sorta stuff Allright, the more important stuff. First off, Slashdot CD-ROMs? I don't really know what good it would be, but people constantly email and suggest it. I figure we could put the html from 1998 on it and sell it really cheap, or we hire someone to write a nice little frontend search engine thingee and sell it for a bit more. Is there demand for this? Would you buy it? What is it worth? I don't think I would want it just because it's all online already- but then again, I already have access to that stuff. The major issue is that the older comments are no longer in a database (they are flushed after 30 days when the page is written out for the last time) but a competant perl hacker could easily strip that data back out. A Slashdot Book? People suggest this all the time too- taking the best stories of 1998 and shoving them in a nice hefty book. With a big collection of the best comments for folks to read. We're probably way to late to actually do this for the year end, althought this strikes me as more interesting than the CD. Is it a good idea? Should we consider it for 1999? Regardless, this isn't as cool as... A Slashdot Magazine? This has been suggested time and time again by folks. Essentially, a monthly publication wich selects a dozen or so of the best stories and prints them each with a few dozen comments. Then a section perhaps a few dozen stories worth reprinting. Perhaps an original article or something each month to make it actually have something that you can't get online. I don't really care, I'd rather keep everything online personally. Frankly I don't really even like paper all that much. But maybe it would just be cool to read in the bathroom, unless you have 10-base-T in your bathroom already (I'm so tempted but I have so far resisted despite the fact that there is a hub 10 ft away). Anyway, is this worth whatever the $20 it is to subscribe to a magazine these days? I'd have to hire folks to put it together and I'd have to find someone who actually knows how to publish something like this. The question is, is there a demand for it? Other Random Things Is it worth a Real Audio feed of Slashdot? I mean, eventually we'll have actual bandwidth around here and the machine won't be lagged. Would it be cool to have an audible Slashdot report for stories each day? We could conceivably do Video- I can sit behind a desk and not wear pants. We've also shot around a Slashdot Radio Show where we get a couple of geeks (maybe me and a few Slashdot authors plus random guests) a few times a week, and talk about a few of the more interesting stories off Slashdot for the day. We could take callers or something, I don't know. It might be fun. Conclusion Anyway, all of this is just random mussings. My first mission is to get Slash 0.3 done, get the server stable, find a few more solid, reliable, trustworthy moderators, and hopefully enjoy the holidays for a bit. But any feedback on this stuff is appreciated. Frankly I don't care if we do any of these things or not, but enough people are suggesting these things that I'm curious if its actually worth doing. If it is, it means I have to decide exactly what I want to do so that I can convince rich investors that this won't be like flushing their money directly down the toilet. Anyway, if you have ideas post them here or email me (note that there is no way I'll be able to respond to everyone, but I'll try)

Slashdot gets a lot of mentions out there, and I'm sick of devoting whole stories to them, so I'm lumping them together. First, I mentioned Cool Site of the Year before, but I just found out that one of the prizes is a New Guitar- so Go vote for us. You can vote once a day, and this is one poll I have no problem Slashdotting *grin*. Cheekyboy wrote in to tell us that we're the #5 site at at 100 Hot's Developer Site List. hatredonalog wrote in to say that the new issue of Linux Journal has Slashdot listed as the #1 Linux Web Page, beating out linux.org. Anonymous Harrison noted that a recent Jerk City cartoon mentions Slashdot. And lastly, the RC5 Team has been doing pretty well these days. In fact, we and the Evangelista's have been swapping the #1 daily keys spot. So go run clients on anything that boots and lets dust 'em.

Matthew Kirkwood wrote in to tell me that Slashdot has been nominated for Cool Site of the Year in the 'Zine catagory. This is from the original, often imitated Cool Site of the Day. "It's just flattering to be nominated yada yada yada". The winner will be determined by a poll on the page.

Matthew Kirkwood wrote in to tell me that Slashdot has been nominated for Cool Site of the Year in the 'Zine catagory. This is from the original, often imitated Cool Site of the Day. "It's just flattering to be nominated yada yada yada". The winner will be determined by a poll on the page.