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Malda posts stories that interest him on Slashdot's front page. Below each is a bulletin boardstyle forum where readers can jump in with their own thoughts. It's like the McLaughlin Group meets the AV club, 24 hours a day. "We're just like, here you go, talk, go crazy, and people do," says Malda. "In the best cases, you have people who will go to the source, add to it, extend it, throw in their own two bits." Those two bits add up: on average, the news stories on Slashdot get as many as 5,000 comments a day.
Right now Slashdot is still mainly for the digerati—the fare is a little more technical than your average nonhacker can handle. But the possibilities of Slashdot's collaborative-news model go way beyond the nerd world. One day the Internet may offer Slashdot-style sites for every niche kind of news. Want to try it? Malda gives away the software that runs Slashdot. Goodbye, Peter Jennings. Hail, Commander Taco. |
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