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theodp writes "According to the new issue of Time, we may be in the golden age of blogging, a quirky Camelot moment in Internet history when some guy in his underwear with too much free time can take down a Washington politician. Amateur scribblers posting on the Web are becoming the tails that wag the media, says Time, citing an underperforming undergraduate at a small Christian college in Michigan as an example." Hey, if Circuits can discover USB, I don't see why Time can't discover weblogs.
Wow, what an awesome news story, I shall add it to my blog immediately.
(omgwtfbbq!?fp?)
Sounds like a chapter right out of Ender's Game. Damn that Peter Wiggin, err.. Locke! Yea! Damn that Locke!
Now we just need to have a pen based computer for each kid in school. Whoops, that's already happening too.
Is this slashdot.org site any good? and what's the url?
OSDN confirms it, cheap plugs are not dying.
Meet Joe Blog
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Slashdotting CmdrTaco.
Slashdot just Slashdotted Cmdr Taco's website. I'm not sure how to react...
May the person who invented that word have his eyes poked out by an angry swordfish while swimming.
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Riiight. Because when I want credibility, I look for random semi-anonymous college kids and geeks with egos to stroke for me hard-hitting news.
My sig is blank, I typed this by hand.
Google cache of main site
Google cache of page on Rob
The article's subtitle:
Why are more and more people getting their news from amateur websites called blogs? Because they're fast, funny and totally biased
Thanks Time, you've just encouraged a site with more traffic than most others on the internet to keep being more biased, as opposed to just giving the story. Does michael get to post smart-assed statements after an article twice as long as they used to be. Does CmdrTaco get that feeling he does absolutely no wrong even stronger? Does this site continue to get treated like a small site by the people who run it when it should be treated like the big one it is, all because of your little article?
With the site going on such a downward spiral, do they really need their ego stroked? God damn you Time. God damn you.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
Hmmm... A New York Times journalist versus some anonymous nobody... that is a difficult choice, especially if the anonymous blogger's name is "jblair".
Stupid sexy Flanders.
nothing. nothing at all...
:D
then again, why the hell are you browisng slashdot?
Finally, now I know Sid's slashdot ID!
Whaddya mean he's not a real person ??
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
If everyone is blogging then it seems like there would be so much useless crap out there that you wouldn't know what to look at
Um... I don't know how to break this to you, but...
The end of days is near!
quick! everyone click reload on slashdot right.... NOW!
Dude, it looks like we just slashdotted CmdrTaco's web site. How's that for irony? :-)
(And now Taco is going to go smack michael upside the head for posting this story. Gotta love it.)
--GrouchoMarx
Card-carrying member of the EFF, FSF, and ACLU. Are you?
Why are more and more people getting their news from amateur websites called blogs? Because they're fast, funny and totally biased
Well, then they have one of the three in common with traditional media, and it isn't being either fast or funny.
And who am I goung to trust over this issue? The low UID mabu(178417) or the just registered Tuvai(783607).
So I, Joe Slashdot, will trust on the comment by mabu.
Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
What's that you say, Rob? Working on your bachelor's degree was the best 12 years of your life?
In the beginning there was USENET and it was good...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
But I bet we can finish off that stuck-up Alicia Watkins who thinks she's all that because Brad who sits behind that chinese kid in chemistry bought her that tacky bracelet from Zales. Anyway I heard from Jennifers sister who works at the DMV that she heard from her friend Christine that the real reason Alicia missed the class trip to Fun Mountain was because she has herpes. I SWEAR TO GOD I am not making this up LOL.
Anyway Brad can't you see that I'm the one who really loves you? Doesn't that mix tape I left in your locker mean anything to you?
I just can't imagine using USB to power a lightbulb.
USB Device: I need 60 watts.
Computer: Ha! That's a good one.
USB Device: I'm serious...
Computer: How about I just burst into flames now?
and as its symbol a steaming pile of crap with a single golden kernal of corn
I used to have a cool sig, back when I cared
Despite your low UID, you seem to be unschooled in the Way of the Hyperlink. Someone links to something cool. Someone else sees said link, and links to it. Etc., Etc., until you see it, and start paying attention.
No one starts with a list of weblogs and looks at them sequentially until they find cool stuff. They find a few (maybe through friends), who send them to a few more...
Is your life so boring that you need to invent conspiracy theories to make it more interesting?
Hey, it's always worked for me. Did you hear the New York Times is secretly owned by the Church of Scientology, who channels the profits into providing arms and electric back massagers for the Flemish Independence Front? See, that was way more fun than flaming people on slashdot.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
Trust me, Tuvai is making sense :-P
I'm blind!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.