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Slashdot is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories on science, technology, and politics that are submitted and evaluated by site users and editors. Each story has a comments section where users can add online comments. Slashdot also offers a business software comparison directory with over 100,000 software products. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SlashdotA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Open Sources 2.0The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Mechanisms of an Online Public Sphere: The Website SlashdotCited 66 times
- Go sideways: Rob MaldaA closely related topic
- Go sideways: SourceForgeA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Mechanisms of an Online Public Sphere: The Website Slashdot
Slashdot and the public sphere
Honest news in the Slashdot decade
Do Blogs Influence SSRN Downloads? Empirically Testing the Volokh and Slashdot Effects
Think piece datamation, annals, slashdot, and tomorrow's history
Slashdot
The Slashdot Supremacy
📚 Books worth reading
Open Sources 2.0Chris DiBona, Mark Stone · 2005
Just a geekWil Wheaton · 2004
Marketing and Promoting Electronic ResourcesEleonora Dubicki · 2007
SlashdotAlexander van den Bosch · 2018
Introduction to making very big booksUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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