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Webmonkey Closes its Doors
An anonymous reader writes "According to Wired, Webmonkey is being closed by TerraLycos after 8 years of teaching practical web building skills and bucking more traditional outlets. They've written some good stuff over the years - in fact, I first understood the significance of XML after reading one of their articles."
Is this article Better LATE than NEVER?
This was first announced almost TWO WEEKS ago, on February 17th. NEWS for nerds? Maybe those who just got back from a 10 day Internet-less vacation in Laos!
Perhaps the delay is due to Webmonkey's bashing of the VA Linux / Andover / Slashdot buyout in which they said "Any unbiased appraisal of this merger, however, will yield one difficult but inescapable truth: The camaraderie and high spirits engendered by Linus and his band of programmers will soon be replaced by the same rancor and factiousness that permeates the rest of the capitalist world. And Slashdot, which is so highly revered by its readers and those who know its mission, will soon lose its trust, reputation, and standing. The deal has dealt the much-heralded geek community and its open-source development model a terrible blow, one from which it may never recover."
This may sound far-fetched, but one time I worked for a particular company that denied another company a lucrative contract just because that company's CTO had bullied my company's CEO when he was in high school (these two companies were in the same city). So, stuff like this happens, even (perhaps) at Slashdot. OSDN/Slashdot may just not want Webmonkey or any of its entities to get press coverage of any sort, and it could be an unspoken rule among editors. I just queried Slash's database for Webmonkey-based stories, and I must say that they didn't carry nearly as many of them as they could have. Either way, it's interesting in my opinion, especially since they bashed Slashdot so much because of that merger, and Slash is still mostly alive and well these days, so kudos to Taco et al. for that.
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Amen!
Bringing this back on topic, I read the XML article. I found it to be generally lacking in content. Similarly, I found the style to me rather silly and unconvincing.
I went on to read several other articles and none of which I found to be very good. All of the information that I obtained from the website I have seen elsewhere in a much better form.
I have never heard of Webmonkey until today. From what I can tell, this doesn't seem to be much of a loss.
Because it was flamebait, dumbass.
2004-02-17 23:02:43 Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 - 2004 (articles,news) (rejected)
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