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Blogging for Dummies?
Guinnessy writes "Wired News reports that one of the most respected journalism schools in America is going to be teaching blogging as part of next semester's course. I find this quite interesting, especially considering the existing controversy over whether blogging, such as Slashdot, is real journalism or not. I still haven't made up my mind." "Blog" now takes the cake as the most ill-used word of 2002. Please draw distinctions between webpages with news, mindless link propagation, discussion sites, personal diaries or journals, etc.
UTM, CLIT, ACs...
It will all end soon.
There will be no more war
He's coming. June 15th, 2002.
Slashdot's has never experienced a troll like this...
Be strong.
Be ready
The war between the ACs, UTM, and CLIT will soon end...
Blogging is a fucking stupid word. Where's your head at? I'm trying to take up 20 seconds so Slashdot doesn't tell me I'm posting too fucking quick.
But anyway, blogging and P2P are gay terms. Very gay. Sort of like Rob Malda or Jon Katz.
Oh yes, FIRST POST ASSFUCK.
Today I made the first post on Slashdot!
It is official, FSF confirms: Emacs is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Emacs community when FSF confirmed that the Emacs market share has dropped yet again, with yet more users switching to the highly praised vi product line. Coming on the heels of a recent user survey which plainly states that Emacs is continuing to lose market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Emacs is collapsing in complete disarray, as has had so many releases it's current version number is greater than 21, a clear sign of crappily maintained software.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the Emacs future. The writing is on the wall: Emacs faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Emacs because Emacs is dying. Things are looking very bad for Emacs. As many of us are already aware, Emacs continues to lose market share to vi. The red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at some numbers.
Tim O'Reilly, of O'Reilly and Associates Publishing (ya know, the books with the animals on the cover), told folks on his Ask Tim forum that he is among those that have made the switch to Emacs from vi. In his message, he tells his followers that O'Reilly sells almost double the number of vi books when compared to sales of Emacs books. Likewise, an O'Reilly sponsored Linux Expo vi/Emacs paintball match shows a similar 2:1 advantage to team vi.
All major surveys show that Emacs has steadily declined in market share. Emacs is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Emacs is to survive at all it will be among text editor dilettante dabblers. Emacs continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes...
Emacs is DEAD
I don't quite see the relevance of mentioning the UTM here. We are a peaceful organisation trying to unite all Slashdot Trolls. I am pleased to hear this news about a new troll though. Let us hope he can truly end the troll wars - there has been too much suffering already.
Too late. I've said over and over on my web page that John Ashcroft is not a patriot. In fact he's a deadly enemy of the American people. I hope that he gets fired and subsequently cannot fulfil his dream of being a choir director.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
i think that the word "gay" is the most ill-used word in 2002. and 2001... and 2000 and perhaps 1999.