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Is Slashdot for sale – if not should it be?

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Richard

Many years ago I ran a subsidiary of VA Linux called OSDN. OSDN consisted of 11 websites and three businesses. These 3 business were the e-commerce business Thinkgeek, a subscription business called Animation Factory and a media business consisting of … Continue reading →

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Is Slashdot on the block?

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Richard

In today’s article in CNNMoney.com entitled Is Slashdot the future of Media?, an idea was floated that Slashdot, and even VA Software, should be snapped up by another media company. But it seems to me that any media company aiming … Continue reading →

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Questioning the Slashdot Effect — Getting to the Why not the What

Posted on March 3, 2005 by Richard

Business Week Online’s article Less Impact from the Slashdot Effect leaps to conclusions about why the Slashdot Effect has weakened over the last 12 months. While I do not necessarily question an overall decline in the percentage of traffic that … Continue reading →

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