No, it's not journalism. It's another in Infoworld's tedious astro-turf-by-story-submission stories. They pay Slashdot, have one of their Marketing Chippies put together a story with a link back to their trade mag, and the skids are greased for it to hit the main page here as scheduled. (snydeq is their usual flunky) The incredible -- or just-precious -- part of it is that InfoWorld believes there is enough of any critical mass of programmers or software industry decision-makers who still frequent Slashdot to make this a worthwhile media buy for them.
Yeah, I've been trying to glom myself a copy of that "Rue Morgue" story on the torrents for months now, and they're saying NYC is just giving copies away for free???? S-uhhh-WEEEET!
...is the Cult of Jobs. It's a lot creepier, and you must always remember to run the other way when a cultist appears. Fortunately the true believers always telegraph themselves by referring to him just by his first name, as if they went to the same high school together and were best buds for decades.
The stories aren't related. My educated guess is that the promoted articles are the ones with the highest amount of posts or are the "most engaging" as determined by user up and down votes. The number of people responding to slashdot stories has plummeted so dramatically in the past year or so that I think that the powers that be feel they are better off promoting generic stories that mathematically qualify as "what the people want" than creating some sort of metadata-driven recommendations consumers "should" find useful. Plus, it's less work to maintain, and these editors are clearly nothing if not flat-out lazy.
Pinterest used to be the social media network for young girls, but then Facebook put some marketing savvy behind Instagram and now holds that niche. Social is a dog-eat-dog world, man...
You have no reasonable -- or legal -- expectation of privacy *in public* in the US. And I have no problem with that. G'head, catch a bunch of bad guys, knock yourself out. Just don't tap my phone or hack into my e-mail/messaging without a warrant and we're all good.
This is what happens when Wikipedia has high school kids write their press releases, and Slashdot editors don't care enough to read them before re-posting.
It seems that every new generation feels the need to reach back and resurrect some tech that was painful-but-the-best-we-had 20 years ago and embrace it enthusiastically like they have just discovered a trove of of forgotten Power Crystals from the Lost City of Atlantis.
Note to Hipsters: Next time you want to re-cool-ify some recording medium that -- mysteriously !!! -- died quietly back when you were still wearing plastic pants, please first check with one of us who were at the funeral...
Google+ is (was?) a better designed and engineered alternative to Facebook, but it was marketed poorly. They positioned themselves as some kind of social network for cool tech people, forgetting that all the real cool tech people were already active with each other in their own online communities, You *had* to be on LinkedIn, because Business, and you *had* to be on Facebook, because Family, even if you weren't active in either, so you really, really needed a good reason to join another social network with strangers. And all that cringeworthy astroturfing and bought-and-paid-for testimonials by the those who were supposed to be our Nerd Leaders, such as Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day, and Guy Kawasaki just made the whole thing a laughing stock.
The type of people who believe they are "living off the grid" in a Food Court would be laughed *back* to the grid, if not shot outright, by the type of people who really live off the grid.
BAD LUCK?!?! What, a guy is walking down the street at 4am when a gun, pointed at his head accidentally went off behind him at close range? What, did the poor fool accidentally wander into somebody' else's gangland shooting? THAT kind of bad luck? What kind of bad luck are you talking about?
The established science is that people get murdered all the time for money or out of passion. Why was this guy Seth, a big-time deep-data jockey for the DNC, offed, in your opinion?
Love the program, by the way... but like so many open source programs, there is a certain aesthetic panache that is lacking... the "community" should look into getting some real designers to finish off the UIs to their products in general, and for VLC in particular.
You are absolutely right. It is Yahoo's business, and they must do whatever they can to make money with it. And it's not like anything that Yahoo does with its online properties is going to have any effect on the culture. The time for them to have that kind of influence is long past.
But it is very telling -- and sad -- that they are so loudly trumpeting their new language restriction filters. Many boards have such filters (it's not a new idea) but until now no one has bragged about it. And that's the sad part: that such a growing percentage of online communities -- not too long ago the preeminent standard bearers for unfettered communication, speech, and new ideas -- might actually see what Yahoo is doing as a feature and not a deterrent.
>>the left wing fringe isn't nearly as large as Fox News would have you believe
I don't watch Fox News or listen to talk radio. Conservatives aren't nearly as uniform in their media consumption habits as MSNBC or DemocraticUnderground.com would have you believe.
>>Tweet is the Kleenex of the internet.
Completely disagree. Many, many, many more people post to websites then have even seen a tweet on Twitter. Twitter has a lot of influence in the media and with brand managers, and so second-hand with actual Joe Sixpack consumers, but nobody but you confuses website posts with tweets.
>>horror stories... 1950's... wife-beatings... 5000 years of history...
Again, I respectfully disagree... History is my hobby and I get what you're trying to say, but you're wrong to project your knowledge and appreciation of history onto the average American SJW, regardless of their race or creed. Most of them couldn't pick Robert Kennedy or Martin Luther King out of a police line-up, let alone understand how race/religious/gender relations has evolved over the centuries.
>>There are some among us who _want_ the non-stop cavalcade of racist tweets to stop.
Why are you following tweeters who spew cavalcades of racist tweets, or cavalcades of anything you don't like? Un-follow them. Vote them off your personal island, but you shouldn't get to vote them off the planet. Some sick, stupid racist f*ck may want to read what they are writing, and that dumb evil f*ck has the same rights as you.
>>there are a few obnoxious radicals that wanna ruin everybody's fun.
There is an inordinately large number of emotionally-fragile self-righteous whiners who would rather restrict everyone's freedom of speech than think meaningfully about opposing points of view that are held by a large portion of the population.
There. Fixed that for you. Happy to help.
>>Nigeria... race, creed & sex
I agree. The crazy crap that happens in many of these African, Asian and Middle Eastern dives in the name of race, creed or sex is barbaric and medieval. But try and connect the atrocities to the race/creed/sex that you and I both know is at the root of it and see and how quick the SJWs try to shout/shut you down.
Slashdot Mirror
No, it's not journalism. It's another in Infoworld's tedious astro-turf-by-story-submission stories. They pay Slashdot, have one of their Marketing Chippies put together a story with a link back to their trade mag, and the skids are greased for it to hit the main page here as scheduled. (snydeq is their usual flunky) The incredible -- or just-precious -- part of it is that InfoWorld believes there is enough of any critical mass of programmers or software industry decision-makers who still frequent Slashdot to make this a worthwhile media buy for them.
...want less Facebook stories in their feed. Work on that for me, Beau, wouldja?
...said no project manager, anywhere, ever.
>>Advantage: Nothing for the hobos to sleep under on benches.
Yeah, I've been trying to glom myself a copy of that "Rue Morgue" story on the torrents for months now, and they're saying NYC is just giving copies away for free???? S-uhhh-WEEEET!
But it's that "other nonsense" for which we New Yorkers are riding the subway in the first place...
...is the Cult of Jobs. It's a lot creepier, and you must always remember to run the other way when a cultist appears. Fortunately the true believers always telegraph themselves by referring to him just by his first name, as if they went to the same high school together and were best buds for decades.
The stories aren't related. My educated guess is that the promoted articles are the ones with the highest amount of posts or are the "most engaging" as determined by user up and down votes. The number of people responding to slashdot stories has plummeted so dramatically in the past year or so that I think that the powers that be feel they are better off promoting generic stories that mathematically qualify as "what the people want" than creating some sort of metadata-driven recommendations consumers "should" find useful. Plus, it's less work to maintain, and these editors are clearly nothing if not flat-out lazy.
Pinterest used to be the social media network for young girls, but then Facebook put some marketing savvy behind Instagram and now holds that niche. Social is a dog-eat-dog world, man...
What, both of you? Why don't you ask the other guy and then let us all know...
You have no reasonable -- or legal -- expectation of privacy *in public* in the US. And I have no problem with that. G'head, catch a bunch of bad guys, knock yourself out. Just don't tap my phone or hack into my e-mail/messaging without a warrant and we're all good.
This is what happens when Wikipedia has high school kids write their press releases, and Slashdot editors don't care enough to read them before re-posting.
It seems that every new generation feels the need to reach back and resurrect some tech that was painful-but-the-best-we-had 20 years ago and embrace it enthusiastically like they have just discovered a trove of of forgotten Power Crystals from the Lost City of Atlantis.
Note to Hipsters: Next time you want to re-cool-ify some recording medium that -- mysteriously !!! -- died quietly back when you were still wearing plastic pants, please first check with one of us who were at the funeral...
Yeah, but you are already driving to someplace in Pittsburgh, so how much worse can your day really get?
Google+ is (was?) a better designed and engineered alternative to Facebook, but it was marketed poorly. They positioned themselves as some kind of social network for cool tech people, forgetting that all the real cool tech people were already active with each other in their own online communities, You *had* to be on LinkedIn, because Business, and you *had* to be on Facebook, because Family, even if you weren't active in either, so you really, really needed a good reason to join another social network with strangers. And all that cringeworthy astroturfing and bought-and-paid-for testimonials by the those who were supposed to be our Nerd Leaders, such as Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day, and Guy Kawasaki just made the whole thing a laughing stock.
The type of people who believe they are "living off the grid" in a Food Court would be laughed *back* to the grid, if not shot outright, by the type of people who really live off the grid.
uuuuuhhhh.... WOOOSH?
A Good Start.
BAD LUCK?!?! What, a guy is walking down the street at 4am when a gun, pointed at his head accidentally went off behind him at close range? What, did the poor fool accidentally wander into somebody' else's gangland shooting? THAT kind of bad luck? What kind of bad luck are you talking about?
The established science is that people get murdered all the time for money or out of passion. Why was this guy Seth, a big-time deep-data jockey for the DNC, offed, in your opinion?
Love the program, by the way... but like so many open source programs, there is a certain aesthetic panache that is lacking... the "community" should look into getting some real designers to finish off the UIs to their products in general, and for VLC in particular.
You are absolutely right. It is Yahoo's business, and they must do whatever they can to make money with it. And it's not like anything that Yahoo does with its online properties is going to have any effect on the culture. The time for them to have that kind of influence is long past.
But it is very telling -- and sad -- that they are so loudly trumpeting their new language restriction filters. Many boards have such filters (it's not a new idea) but until now no one has bragged about it. And that's the sad part: that such a growing percentage of online communities -- not too long ago the preeminent standard bearers for unfettered communication, speech, and new ideas -- might actually see what Yahoo is doing as a feature and not a deterrent.
>>the left wing fringe isn't nearly as large as Fox News would have you believe
I don't watch Fox News or listen to talk radio. Conservatives aren't nearly as uniform in their media consumption habits as MSNBC or DemocraticUnderground.com would have you believe.
>>Tweet is the Kleenex of the internet.
Completely disagree. Many, many, many more people post to websites then have even seen a tweet on Twitter. Twitter has a lot of influence in the media and with brand managers, and so second-hand with actual Joe Sixpack consumers, but nobody but you confuses website posts with tweets.
>>horror stories... 1950's... wife-beatings... 5000 years of history...
Again, I respectfully disagree... History is my hobby and I get what you're trying to say, but you're wrong to project your knowledge and appreciation of history onto the average American SJW, regardless of their race or creed. Most of them couldn't pick Robert Kennedy or Martin Luther King out of a police line-up, let alone understand how race/religious/gender relations has evolved over the centuries.
If that page was made today, it would be spread out over 5 pages, have 32 trackers and self playing ads with sound
Or else be one of the top-trafficked and most influential sites currently online in the US.
>>There are some among us who _want_ the non-stop cavalcade of racist tweets to stop.
Why are you following tweeters who spew cavalcades of racist tweets, or cavalcades of anything you don't like? Un-follow them. Vote them off your personal island, but you shouldn't get to vote them off the planet. Some sick, stupid racist f*ck may want to read what they are writing, and that dumb evil f*ck has the same rights as you.
>>there are a few obnoxious radicals that wanna ruin everybody's fun.
There is an inordinately large number of emotionally-fragile self-righteous whiners who would rather restrict everyone's freedom of speech than think meaningfully about opposing points of view that are held by a large portion of the population.
There. Fixed that for you. Happy to help.
>>Nigeria... race, creed & sex
I agree. The crazy crap that happens in many of these African, Asian and Middle Eastern dives in the name of race, creed or sex is barbaric and medieval. But try and connect the atrocities to the race/creed/sex that you and I both know is at the root of it and see and how quick the SJWs try to shout/shut you down.