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NYT On Online Reputations
prostoalex writes "New York Times analyzes the importance of online postings for the company images and product success/failure rates. Intuit's TurboTax DRM "feature" is mentioned as one of the bad ideas, that was quickly and vociferously opposed by the Internet folk. The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding got quite a nice cash flow even though the advertising budget was low, but opinions on the Internet regarded the movie highly. Rating systems of Epinions and Slashdot are also discussed briefly."
Mmmmm... full screen ads! That what you'll get if you click thru to the article... but at least you don't have to register!
I wonder who IWON is and if they are going to profit from the inevitable slashdotting?
These muslims - what do they do here? The come here and profit from our welfare system and then call in mosques to kill all kafir (unbelievers). The situation has deteriorated so much that, to commit terrorist acts in non European countries, aid from Europe's muslims is required. (well, except for south/southeast asian terrorists)
....but clicking on a link that's supposed to be an article, and going straight to a STUPID BANNER ADD ON A WHOLE PAGE, is a bit too much(oh, wait, there's a link - skip the add.... how nice...;o((). Is it the NYT that reacted really fast to the /. linking or is the editor just lazy???
1. No sig. 2. ???? 3. Profit!!!
Difficult to see, the dark side is.
I never understood that though. One second, Bruce Banner is wearing like, blue jeans or khakis or something...then when he transforms, suddenly he's wearing purple. Does the gamma radiation change the color of his clothes too or something?
Hmmm, "web of trust" doesn't sound too good - I think it's that whole "being caught in a spider's web" that ruins it for me as a metaphor that works. I mean, if you're the fly, how are you going to trust a web?
I prefer "circle of trust" because it sounds so much more caring - a circle being an unbroken line that joins itself, enclosing a given area as tightly as possible, etc. It just sounds so much warmer, cosier and friendly. Robert de Niro clearly agrees with me, and who's going to argue with him?
Anyhow Redking, you sound like a nice guy, so I've had a word with Robbie and we've decided to put you in our circle of trust. But trust is a two way street - "I keep nothing from you, you keep nothing from me. And around and around we go", as Robbie likes to say.
Remember, there are no secrets inside the circle. If you break the circle of trust, you'll be placed outside the circle. Once you're out, there's no coming back.
Yep, circle's are definitely the way to go. Webs are just so 1990s.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
slashdot moderation sucks donkey ass.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
what's scary is that most medium to large city newspapers freely parrot syndicated news stories from the NYT, Washington Post, AP, and Reuters.
That means there is no diversity in news sources.
Hey, wait I thought those liberal bog media worhsipped 'diversity'.
Blog: v., to expel mucous or any snot-like material out of your nose. Usually occurring when sneeze and coughing while trying to drink milk.
I love Andrew for pointing out the circular onanistic principles upon which the "blog" "culture" (as in petri dish) operates.
so, tell me, Jimmay, are you usually the loser or the winner in the blogoid version of "Soggy Biscuit"?