This post on the “gentrification of geek communities” is interesting, and somewhat relevant to what I’m trying to do with the Digest. However, the author seems to have more of a concern about which sites appear the most hip, rather than viewing them as secondary mechanisms for reporting on the actual news items found there. (Via)
Perhaps that’s the sign a geek news site has ‘jumped the shark’: when appearing on it is more exciting than reading the news articles present. e.g. the Slashdot Effect rather than the Slashdot News.
I haven’t read Slashdot in about eighteen months, or any of the other big sites, it seemed like a big time suck I didn’t need in my life, and now I’m glad I stopped.
Reading that back, I think I sound like a recovering alcoholic.