hi everyone - the web site slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org) is becoming increasingly popular. the site currently gets 18 million unique visitors each month. that number keeps rising. within the next year or two slashdot might rise to have 50 to 100 million unique visitors per month.
anyone can submit a "story" (item) to slashdot. this morning i submitted a story which asked about the feasibility of controlling hurricanes. see http://shorterlink.com/?J5RVAB you'll note that there's a link to my DDN profile from my name at the beginning of this slashdot story. that link will be followed by some reporter out there wondering about the credibility of the person who posted the slashdot item. that same reporter may end up wondering about the nature and extent of the Digital Divide Network web site. here is what you can do to help. visit the slashdot web site often and tell people you know about the site. in my eyes, slashdot is part of the emerging alternate media. if the site grows to have 100 million unique visitors per month, it will become an even stronger cultural force than it is now. how much web traffic does a slashdot story drive to a web site? it depends on how interesting the story is. a few months ago, 40,000 people visited the Digital Bicycle web site the week after this story appeared on slashdot. http://shorterlink.com/?3K7VUA. i have a hunch even more people visited the Wink web site. in sum, use the tools you know about to achieve the ends you seek to achieve. blog on, - phil btw, getting a story accepted on slashdot is pretty difficult these days. they probably accept less than one percent of submitted stories. the best way of knowing what kinds of stories they like to run (and the appropriate ways to word a story) is to follow the slashdot web site. if you'd like to submit a story to slashdot and would like feedback on how likely slashdot would accept it, feel free to send me an email off list. yes, there is the possibility that some of the most interesting stories on slashdot originate from people in the DDN community. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro (blog) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro (technology access work) http://mytvstation.blogspot.com/ (video and rich media) "Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others." - Desiderata _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.