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Slashdot covered the benefits of using url-shorteners to reduce bandwidth waste only last March! Everyone is so eager to prove how sophisticated they are and toss hate on an admittedly stupid fad (twitter) that they're prepared to pretend there are absolutely no benefits to using the types of services talked about in the article. I thought this was supposed to be a geek site, not some silly MMORPG where the only thing that counts is how high your comments get rated?

Remember this?

There's a reason why people use url-shorteners, and that reason is because they have a benefit to their use! Many of the more savvy tech sites have begun using them internally to save that 'as much as 75MBit/sec of bandwidth' mentioned in the Slashdot headline. If there is a group getting together to ensure this usage can continue to live on even after the death of the individual services, so much the better! This should be seen as good news...

Instead you half-wits decided to forsake any semblance of geek cred you may have had to whine about Twitter... stuff like this and I wonder why I even come here any more!

--bornagainpenguin

The problem with a lot of websites and blogs is that there is too much content. Many professionals don't have the time to cut through the fluff to get to the really interesting stuff. The magazine model has to change, you should check out o3 magazine (www.o3magazine.com) and see what we've come up with to revise the magazine model.

Are you James Hollingshead - the James who writes articles for O3 Magazine? As in http://www.apac.o3magazine.com/

First off, thanks for writing "Intro to Open Source" in issue 1. Funny story, I forwarded it to our CEO about a year back. He actually read it out loud verbatim at the officers' meeting about a week later and, if anyone didn't know before, all of them learned what open source is. Nice one!

O3 Magazine is now serious required reading at my business. Let me tell you, you saved our tail with that article in issue 2 about Rapid Web Development (we were considering non-rapid development techniques at the time), needless to say your article was extremely timely. Once we went rapid (with the model) and viewed the controllers, everything was aces. I mean everything. I've never seen a project go so smoove.

Then, you did it again with "Leveraging Open Source for Business" http://www.apac.o3magazine.com/articles/ Ohhhww! Home run, baby go!

Now that you have stirred my company's interest in open source - if I can be frank here, Matt, I think it's high time we leveraged it in our solutions. Being frank again here, I think it's absolutely silly not to. I am very keen on this Matt, very keen.

Are you James Hollingshead - the James who writes articles for O3 Magazine? As in http://www.apac.o3magazine.com/

First off, thanks for writing "Intro to Open Source" in issue 1. Funny story, I forwarded it to our CEO about a year back. He actually read it out loud verbatim at the officers' meeting about a week later and, if anyone didn't know before, all of them learned what open source is. Nice one!

O3 Magazine is now serious required reading at my business. Let me tell you, you saved our tail with that article in issue 2 about Rapid Web Development (we were considering non-rapid development techniques at the time), needless to say your article was extremely timely. Once we went rapid (with the model) and viewed the controllers, everything was aces. I mean everything. I've never seen a project go so smoove.

Then, you did it again with "Leveraging Open Source for Business" http://www.apac.o3magazine.com/articles/ Ohhhww! Home run, baby go!

Now that you have stirred my company's interest in open source - if I can be frank here, Matt, I think it's high time we leveraged it in our solutions. Being frank again here, I think it's absolutely silly not to. I am very keen on this Matt, very keen.

Did you not see this story the other day about the new open source magazine, O3?

Their first issue "looks at reducing voice infrastructure costs with open source telephony solutions"

I suggest starting there.

Did you not see this story the other day about the new open source magazine, O3?

Their first issue "looks at reducing voice infrastructure costs with open source telephony solutions"

I suggest starting there.

http://www.o3magazine.com/o3issue1.torrent

Seriously... this is so the way to go to avoid getting /.'d...