27 Feb 2000 Radagast   » (Journeyer)

Reading the /. thread attached to the GNOME development roadmap article, I realize the reason I bother is the same reason people watch autopsy photos, or The Jerry Springer Show; sick fascination. And to think that back in 1997/98, I had a Slashdot habit that required me to check it at least 20 times a day...

Iain checked in some Loom code, it seems. I haven't had time to try to compile it yet, to see what it does, but I'm happy stuff is happening there.

Hans Petter seems to have gotten the Oracle crap under control, and Peter Murphy was most excellent last night. I didn't even know Mexico City had a goth community.

Read Raph's diary entry, in particular the part about commercializing web sites, and the principles behind Advogato, with great interest. My question to all this is, is it impossible to be "yet another IPO-track dot.com website" and still have great community, and not sell your soul? I think it is. Slashdot, for instance, didn't change much when they were commercialized. The overexposure killed them, because they didn't scale, but I think having money didn't make much of a difference in content. Maybe it made too little of a difference, since it seems they're all happy sitting on their ass with their IPO money now, and just post articles now and then. I'm getting more and more convinced something new is in order.

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