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Digg and del.icio.us just got the boot

Brian M. [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, February 7, 2006
18 years ago

As more and more interesting news filters to the surface, I am doing my best to keep my feedreader trim. In order to consolidate some of my ~70 feeds I recently subscribed to diggdot.us, which brings together del.icio.us, Digg and Slashdot. Since I did this, though, i've noticed a lot of /cruft/ in my feedreader in the morning. I took a look at the top ten headlines for these three sites today, and put stars next to the items that are actually news. It's pretty clear to me that Slashdot's focus on "Stuff that matters" results in a better use of my time. Don't you think? Top ten posts from del.icio.us, Digg and Slashdot this morning:

del.icio.us:

Rails Best Practices, Tips and Tricks
Inside Firefox – The Inside Track on Firefox Development
Design 2.0: Minimalism, Transparency, and You
Paul Armstrong Designs – Weblog – CSS
Aerogel – for sale!!
About Gmail
JsonT – Transforming Json
Forty Internet – HTML Tutorial
Recap: Becoming an Email Ninja | 43 Folders
Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2)

Digg:

150 GB Raptor
iPhoto-like image resizing using Javascript (Example Pics)
Day of Defeat: Source Free This Weekend
Dude tells how he made $16,000+ off selling XBOX 360s on eBay...
*1GB iPod Nano Released Today!
*Apple Counts Down to 1 Billion Songs
Painless backups using rdiff-backup
*Opera 9.0 TP2 is out
Google To Telcos: Who Needs You?
Should Apple buy Palm?

Slashdot:

*BitTorrent to Sue Over Trademark
*Google Adds Chat To Gmail
*Lockheed Martin Plans Unmanned Aircraft
Patents of Business Destruction
*Zoep Goes Open Source
*When Does Maturity Set In?
Responsible Nanotechnology Interview
*Scientists Find New Species In Remote New Guinea
*ActiveState Returns to Open Source Roots
*Using Barges to Fight Global Warming

I also nuked WebmasterWorld today. They've never not posted a dupe.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Digg definitely has more "fun but irrelevant" links than Slashdot. So, that's good or bad depending how you look at it. I like fun and irrelevant sometimes :)

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