The first time I heard about Slashdot, it was a wonderful place. The ‘news for nerds’ was high-impact and usually well before any other sites. I spent most of the summer of 2003 moderating comments, I even have a few 5′s.
No more.
As of today, slashdot is off my list of rss feeds. The editor-based blog is not keeping up with headlines and worse the quality of the summaries is now so low that it seems to be wrong on basic facts. This story on MySQL was the last straw. It’s a typical example of what slashdot has become: either the story is late, or it’s all over the place with a misleading headline. I don’t mind bad headlines in reddit or digg, but the editors in /. used to mean something.
The sad thing is that there’s no real substitute since the linksites like reddit and digg have barely anything to do with tech and are pretty shoddy in their content anyway. It’s going to come down to assembling rss feeds on netvibes, and reading twitter. You can look at the stuff I read on netvibes through my Tech Universe.
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I am in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil for IEEE NOMS 2008,
There seems to be considerable interest in the cloud computing domain, which imports considerations from software-as-a-service and seamless computing. Some of the speakers and audience were highly skeptical about cloud, particularly citing issues of Service Level Agreement and privacy.
This morning’s keynote is about cognitive radio, where devices can make use of reserved (but unused) frequencies in a specific space and time to improve their performance without interrupting or interfering with the primary licensee.
The research space also seems to include a lot of interest in the policy-based-management space. The idea is basically about translating high level business objectives to intermediate properties and ultimately down to low-level changes in network devices automatically.
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