I know there are other sites that allow you to do this, but the real benefit of digg for me is that I can 'bookmark' stories and links by digging them, and then access that list from anywhere. So, when I try to remember the link to something that I vaguely recall having read a couple days ago, I can just go to my dugg stories list and pull it up very quickly.
I haven't really used the features of Slashdot that much; I'm mostly a reader. Digg does make news bookmarking very easy, however.
It's called the Superparamagnetic effect. If you make the grain size (the region of magnetic orientation that would define one bit) too small, it will spontaneously randomize due to thermodynamics.
If you prefer to hear his opinions (though I don't know why you would:) rather than read them, Dvorak also discusses this with Leo Laporte in an interview / phone conversation in episode 8 of the This Week in Tech podcast. Leo seems to have a different take on this than Dvorak.
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I haven't really used the features of Slashdot that much; I'm mostly a reader. Digg does make news bookmarking very easy, however.
It's called the Superparamagnetic effect. If you make the grain size (the region of magnetic orientation that would define one bit) too small, it will spontaneously randomize due to thermodynamics.
If you prefer to hear his opinions (though I don't know why you would :) rather than read them, Dvorak also discusses this with Leo Laporte in an interview / phone conversation in episode 8 of the This Week in Tech podcast. Leo seems to have a different take on this than Dvorak.