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Fortune: Is Slashdot the Future of Media?

A Fortune Magazine article by David Kirkpatrick, via CNN/Money, reports that:

If you want to see the future of media, go to Slashdot.org.

Two things distinguish it -- it's the most popular news and information site with the tech cognoscenti, particularly programmers and engineers. And all of its content is created by its users. They submit about 700 stories per day, which staff editors vet and reduce down to the 30-35 that get published. Of the site's 5.5 million unique visitors per month, about 25 percent post comments about those stories.

posted by Fergie @ 2/09/2006 04:47:00 PM