Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Slashdot More Like Big Business Not Blogs

It's kind of sad but I think Slashdot may be losing it's edge in the "first to know" area. It use to be that geeks went soley to Slashdot to get their news but that was before the phenom we call blogs. Slashdot is more like big business now than it ever has been and a post today about the FlyPen from LeapFrog is a prime example of it. Slashdot linked to the BusinessWeek story and both were so far behind with releasing info about LeapFrog's new computer pen it's not even funny.

Don't get me wrong, I love cmdrTaco but I wish Slashdot had that cutting edge inside scoop of yesteryear. The fact that I reviewed the marketing campaign LeapFrog is using nearly 3 weeks ago [and interviewed the guys that created it to boot] gives rise to the argument that big media can't compete with the online word of mouth found in blogs.

I'm out.

By Jason Dowdell at 11:58 AM | Comments (0)

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