CmdrTaco Looks Back on Fifteen Years of Slashdot

CmdrTaco sent in a link to his weblog post looking back on his experience running Slashdot for fifteen years: "For me the story of Slashdot is utterly inseparable from my own life. I built it while still in college: when normal people did their homework or had personal lives, I spent my evenings making icons in The Gimp, crafting perl in vim or writing a new story to share with my friends. I’ll never forget the nights spent tailing the access_log and celebrating a line from microsoft.com or mit.edu with friends like Jeff, Dave, Nate, and Kurt."

Comments

Re:Yeah, welcome to the club, pal

[0racle]

I can't wait to see this modded 'Insightful.' Slashdot truly is in decline if it doesn't happen.

Re:Personally don't care what CmdrTaco thinks

[FatAlb3rt]

Thanks for speaking for the collective. Apparently you think that ACs are highly regarded around here.

Re:lol slashdot

[not already in use]

If anything, the more level-headed users have left for reddit. The only people who stick around here are people who scream "SHILL!" the second anyone has an opinion about Microsoft that isn't paranoid in nature.

Re:about facebook directly

[TaoPhoenix]

Naw, I think it's about the indirect "Facebook Placement" that's starting to creep in that is bugging people. Let's try a few titles:

Why Are We So Rude Online? - and of all of "Online", we get: "For example, a study found that browsing Facebook tends to lower people's self control."

What Happened To Diaspora, the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated

How Noah Kagan Got Fired From Facebook and Lost $100 Million

WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual - and of all "tech giants" we get "Google (Go), Twitter (Bootstrap), Facebook (iOS 6 Facebook Integration), Microsoft (Windows Store apps), and Apple (Create Apps for IOS 6)".

The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll - "Dublin-based writer Leo Traynor has written a piece about confronting the troll who ...hacked his Facebook...

Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon - The progress can be followed by visiting the repository at GitHub or the project Facebook page."

Illinois Prof Calls for a Federal Law To Safeguard Digital Afterlives - and of all digital afterlives we get: "Mazzone argues that Facebook and other online services".

Privacy Watchdogs Want Facebook, Datalogix Deal Probed

California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password - excuse me, "J053 sends word that California has passed legislation making it illegal for both colleges and employers to request social media account access from students, employees, and prospective hires. " But of all Social Media, the Title went for "Facebook".

Facebook Denies Leak of Users' Private Messages

Man Arrested In Greece For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page

New York Times Takes Aim At Data Center - Oh look, it's tagged "Facebook"

How Internet Data Centers Waste Power - This is the price being paid to ensure everyone has instant access to every email they've ever received, or for their instant Facebook status update. Data Center providers are finding that they can't rack servers fast enough to provide for users' needs: A few companies say they are using extensively re-engineered software and cooling systems to decrease wasted power. Among them are Facebook and Google, which also have redesigned their hardware. Still, according to recent disclosures, Google's data centers consume nearly 300 million watts and Facebook's about 60 million watts. (So of only two data centers, they went with Facebook and Google.)

Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name

Facebook Disables Face Recognition In EU

Salesforce CEO Benioff: Future Software Will Look Like Facebook

Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account?

Patent Troll Goes After Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, Others

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So will that do for two weeks worth? Facebook (and Google and Apple) are where they are because they're playing "Product Placement News". Get big enough so that bunches of news stories merit your "Brand Name" being inserted as a news item.