BoingBoing quoted you. Last time I looked, BoingBoing outdraws Slashdot.
I could wish that I would be 'dismissed' as much as you are.
Ah, but that's not *blogging* about it. That's "Serving the A-list". There's a big difference between mailing a tip to a high-keeper-of-gates that he or she might like, and whatever reach I have on my own, which is comparatively trivial.
Remember, I had a huge amount of censorware research derailed and destroyed from Slashdot backing a vicious domain-hijacker. The lessons there are still relevant and in part suppress my further research.
Posted by Seth Finkelstein at April 22, 2007 01:44 AMShelley,
maybe I am an idiot, but I couldn't find a direct link to Seth's blog or his work on this in either the boingboing or slashdot article or comments on /.
Please correct me where I am wrong.
I even searched the /. comments at -1 for one.
Not even anonymously Seth?
Posted by tqft at April 22, 2007 03:33 AMNah. I don't bother commenting on Slashdot, not worth the trouble. Even anonymously, because of all the mud slung at me in the past from their backing you-know-who (that is, because I was tarred with the claim that anything done by an anonymous troll was in fact my work, I adopted the policy of not ever commenting anonymously - even if not logged-in, I left my name. Then I gave up. At this point, it just feels humiliating - "please, please, notice me, *squeak* *squeak* *squeak*").
Seth,
Keep pulling the holes you find in the dyke restraining ignorance.
Slashdot IS hardly worth commenting upon. I think the wisdom of crowds has a tipping point too. Find venues with fewer loud voices and more perceptive listener/voters... better yet, just keep blogging and add readers based upon a similar view of the world.
Posted by McD at April 23, 2007 11:50 AM