Slashdot ceded the throne to technoblog

A few years ago, the Slashdot website spawned a new phenomenon in online journalism related to instant dissemination of information. If some interesting news with a link to a site hit the first page of Slashdot, then this site was subjected to a real DoS attack a few minutes later and usually fell. He managed to restore his working capacity only an hour or two later. In this case, it was customary to say that the site is “merited”. Every webmaster dreamed of getting such a huge influx of visitors.

Nowadays, the “slashdot effect” has already exhausted itself. And not only because the communication channels have expanded, and the servers have become more powerful and can withstand more serious peak loads, but also because the collective blog Slashdot has lost its leadership position, giving way to the new generation of technology blogs. TechCrunch , TechDirt and Engadget are among today's leaders.

New trends in this market, as well as the reasons for the decline Slashdot writes Russell Shaw in the blog ZDNet. In addition to the emergence of the above competitors Slashdot, he also draws attention to the emergence of insiders from among the largest technology companies, including Microsoft, which maintain their own blogs. These people use their official position and sometimes give out unique insider information. “Normal” bloggers find it hard to compete with insiders. Nowadays, many experts in the field of technology prefer not to give interviews and not speak out on popular media sites, but to express their opinions in their own blog.

The vacant place of the leader of tekhnoblogov is attempted by collective blogs of a new wave, with embedded social functions. Resources like Digg , new Netscape and Reddit can become real mainstream, at least among computer people.
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The Techmeme automatic system stands apart in the list of techno- blogs . It scans the blogosphere and issues the most discussed topics on the first page.

Even Wikipedia , which in our time is updated almost instantly after some significant event, gets its share of readers. It is convenient to track the most important news there, if you open and constantly update the thematic page with the necessary information.

Here are links to tehnoblogs and other resources that are included in the list of the most popular sources of IT news:

Tailrank ;
Spotback ;
Findory ;
Google News ;
Rojo ;
Del.icio.us ;
Blogsnow ;
Popurls .