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DURL, a Search Tool for del.icio.us
Roland Piquepaille writes "I've been a strong advocate of the social bookmarking service named del.icio.us since it started (check here for an example). And almost every single day, a new tool appears and enhances the use of this service. This new one, DURL, written by Robin Millette, lets you type an URL and see if some other people already "delicious'ed it." And this is very efficient because it leads you to people who not only bookmarked the URL, but also assigned to it some pertinent keywords or tags, giving you new and fresh ideas. Services like Bloglines or Technorati among others certainly can return hundreds of links, so they are good for 'popularity contests.' But for building social communities and introducing you to sources you wouldn't have thought of, they don't compare to del.icio.us. This overview contains more comments, examples and screenshots."
Not another Roland article spamming his stupid site for advertising dollars!
I think part of the problem is also that your submitted stories generally suck and stick out as "one of those slashdot Story-Ads". Why the secrecy anyway ? Does /. make money off your submissions or not ? We're not opposed to it, we're just opposed to all the weird shadiness...
So, aggregate the content in a slashdot article and link to the original sources instead of your profiting weblog.
No hosting costs for you, and you perform the same job as everyone else that submits a slashdot article.
A prime example of someone who consumes information and never produces any!? Isnt the point of Slashdot to CONSUME information.. not to PRODUCE it.. especially for your own monetary reasons!?
It cant take a lot of money to get a crappy web hosting provider to host a crappy article site where all the said content is mostly copied verbatim.
You are a prime example of someone who consumes information and never produce any
So what did you ever produce, Roland? Outside of gratuitously long quotes from original sources and adding your own snippet like "This is interesting" or "The technology has gone long ways"? What's your addition to the value chain that you're so intrigued with? If we disconnect the Internet line at your house, would you be capable of producing anything first-hand, using just word processor and your own brain?
Try it yourself some day, you might realize it takes time and money to produce content that many people seem to enjoy.
/. it would solve the problem of him recieving click-throughs and $$!
I am sure the people who originally wrote the articles you copy and pasted would say something similar to you.
That said, I refuse (and have refused in the past) to click through to your website. If someone could kindly just paste the article text from his site to
I think we (at SlashDot) should enhance our image infront of the world.
I don't think it's the image that is the problem. Slashdot really is predominantly a load of crap packed with idiots who think they're God's gift to computers. There is occasionally a link to some other side which is actually interesting, but it's getting more and more rare.
1) So what am I going to do with the three thousand plus bookmarks I've collected over the years? There seems to be no import mechanism
2) If there is a way to import existing bookmarks, this has interesting security implications. A quick search through my Firefox bookmarks yielded two URLs with username/password included as CGI vars. No website does that for anything important (I hope), these are some forum and mailing list sites, for which I use a low-value password, but people who use the same password for everything they do online are going to be seriously screwed.
3) What's the gain of opening up my bookmarks file to the world? I mean, why should I care that so many other people bookmarked this or that page? How does it let me find interesting stuff easier than Google?
4) Social network through browser bookmarks... give me a break. If I view someone else's bookmarks or subscribe to their RSS feed, do we get marked as "friends"?
"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity." - Marshall McLuhan
Funny...upon visiting primidi.com I don't see any advertisements as you claim. Yes, it could be a very recent change, but before you post a flame book maybe you should verify your claim. Looks to me like he's using geeklog as his syndication engine btw.
The only difference, would be Roland profiting for doing absolutely nothing. He could have just as easily put the article text on slashdot.
I hate to use the phrase "site whore", but that is essentially what he is doing. I feel the same way when anyone else uses the same dishonest tactic. There is no need for a middleman in the process when slashdot is already providing this service.
Yet each month, a hundred thousand people read the things he posts. It appears that he does serve some function. What he does is saving some people the trouble of having to search for this "interesting" stuff by themselves.
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
Editors/Slashdot managers,
in the interest of keeping the discussion on Roland's stories civil, I'd like to make a Slashdot enhancement request: Could you please create a category for Roland's stories, which interested users could remove from the front page (like many people did with the Jon Katz years ago)?
If people could remove his stories, many of the whining about his stories would vanish, since they'd have a way to avoid him.
the point is that Slashdot does it, Roland does it, everyone else does it: that's how it is.
All of this is news to me, but it seems to me that the real point is the apparent 100% acceptance rate of these articles. If there is some sort of arrangement between Slashdot and Roland, basic ethics would dictate that the connection be disclosed to readers -- like on TV News when they say "XYZ Company, which is owned by the parent company of this network, announced today..."
There is nothing wrong with posting links to articles others have written in order to generate traffic and make money, which, as you point out, both Slashdot and Roland do. But publishing a news service and selecting your news based on a financial arrangement is a little shady.
Evil is the money of root.