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CNET News.com Turns 7
dmehus writes "Just as Google celebrated its 5th birthday last week, which was covered by Slashdot, I thought it would be equally appropriate to point out that tech news darling CNET News.com celebrated its 7th birthday this past week. To mark that occasion, its Editor-in-Chief Jai Singh wrote an article, in which he reflects on their founding slogan of 'Tech News First' and their commitment to that going forward. He also announces a brand new redesign that was unveiled yesterday. To that I'd add, here's to another seven more! Thoughts or opinions, anyone?"
They have com.com as a domain too... Reminds me of how I always wanted to buy dotcomat.com ..so my email address could be
dotcom@dotcomat.com..
How old is news.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com?
In the spirit of promoting the Slashdot effect, I decided to visit cnet.com after having dismissed their site as rubbish. Well, as it turns out, I found an interesting article where an EFF attorny suggests that universities obfuscate student IP addresses by shuffling them to fend off the the RIAA. Any site that posts that sort of content is okay by me! So to you, cnet.com, may you grow in our dismal economy!
Guess one of those "bozos" had mod points...
I found CNET News.com to be rather biased towards Microsoft early on by running stories favorable towards the company. (often ignoring news critical of Microsoft)
Wow... That makes them the anti-Slashdot! If packets from Slashdot and CNet ever collide, the Internet will blow up in a huge blast of photons!
It's simple, really: they got bought out by VA Lin... What? You said CNet? Oops. Heh heh.
... and their commitment to that going forward...
Which 'going forward' are they committed to, exactly?
God I hate that phrase... Thank you Andy Grove, Craig Barret, et al for forcing me to listen to such masturbatory perversions of grammar and language... Thank you so very much... asshats...
What, is there some danger that someone will think they've invented time travel and are talking about things they'll do to the past? Is there some fear that someone might perceive they mean "going backwards" instead?
We should all synergize our back-ends to re-purpose our execution of EOL on corp-speak... going forward, of course. If anyone would like to whiteboard this in real-time I'll be leveraging some action items into my world-class 'stab a CEO's head' dart board.
*sound of my karma going down the drain*
- I am made of meat.
What, did someone break a mirror, AGAIN?
... a nice Slashdotting!
Click away: newscom.com
I've learned to take CNets news with a grain of salt, since many times they just seem to editorialize stories and add in useless comments etc.
Sorry, but I don't see how is this different from /.
- Otaku no naka no otaku, otaking da!!!
... in which he reflects on their founding slogan of 'Tech News First' and their commitment to that going forward... Thoughts or opinions, anyone?"
I really hate that bit of idiotic business-speak, "going forward." We should all feel incentivized to leverage our existing linguistic infrastructure, and architect a solution using existing word-assets rather than repurposing them -- going forward.
if cnet is 7, slashdot isnt quite as old.. right?
we all know that most of the news slashdot posts is day old news.com news. I mean the new website layout has been up since sometime saturday.
If CNet news.com goes away, where will slashdot get its day old news from?
Yeah, I prefer Slashdot for my tech news. They never editorialize and you never read useless comments there.