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FS tells me that Ars Technica reports that Dice is selling the Slashdot and Sourceforge sites. The company in their second quarter earnings announcements stated they have "not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business", and are planning to divest this business.
The report goes on to note that in spite of what the report calls "an incredibly loyal and passionate following of tech professionals," Slashdot and SourceForge aren't core to DHI's business and that DHI has partnered with KeyBanc Capital Markets to advise DHI on the sale. There is no buyer lined up yet.
The report also says that Slashdot Media (the aggregate of Slashdot and SourceForge) made $1.7 million in revenue for the second quarter and that it's estimated Slashdot Media will pull somewhere between $15 million and $16 million in revenue for fiscal 2015.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:42PM
The proofreading mistakes, the basic editing missteps, those all signaled authenticity to me. I have a learned bias against slick, overly-produced anything because it means somebody evil wants to sell me something I don't need or that's bad for me. For me, rough means real. If an article makes it to the front page and the editor or submitter sounds like they're being a little opinionated or even a bit of a dick, it says to me that there's a real person there that really cares about something. I pay attention to that. When something is overly processed and designed for a specific emotional response, it says to me there's a committee chaired by a dickhead MBA who wants to see the delta in the sales numbers, People!
May Soylent make editorial mistakes forever. May Ethanol-fueled never die, may HairyFeet never lay down the standard of Microsoft. If they go, and are not replaced, then Soylent is headed for a rough patch of road.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:50PM
May HairyFeet never lay down the standard for linux?
FTFY? :)
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2015, @04:33PM
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(Score: 1) by jdavidb on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:02PM
The proofreading mistakes, the basic editing missteps, those all signaled authenticity to me.
Yes, exactly! I couldn't put it into words, but you have done so perfectly. And I think a lot of us have an affectionate spot in our hearts for some of those guys because we saw them in the Real rather than in the Polished modes.
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(Score: 2) by tadas on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:11PM
Yes, exactly! I couldn't put it into words, but you have done so perfectly. And I think a lot of us have an affectionate spot in our hearts for some of those guys because we saw them in the Real rather than in the Polished modes.
I'll never forget that there was a misspelling in the post where Taco proposed to Kathleen Fent on the front page. That was definitely real....
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fadrian on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:12PM
Oh come on... There's authenticity and then there's not giving a crap about doing a decent job. Fuck, I can see a few typos - that's authenticity; what the Slashdot editors were doing was closer to malfeasance. But yeah, long live Soylent, typos and all - at least folks will respond and correct relatively quickly.
That is all.
(Score: 4, Funny) by cmn32480 on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:05AM
We editors will do our very best to continue to screw up. We promise!
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(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Wednesday July 29 2015, @06:34AM
I'm kind of surprised that anyone would need to rely on the presence of mistakes to identify slick ad copy... As a general rule, it usually contains tell-tale phrases or sentiments that won't show up in regular competent, professional, or decently-proofread work, just like there are particular styles that signal whether a novel is literary or mainstream/genre fiction.
Also keep in mind that people with a weak grasp of English grammar, spelling & punctuation are no less likely to be using their comments or articles/posts to sell or convince people of something than those of us that try to avoid errors whenever we can. Don't forget, companies have been hiring writers for at least a few years now to promote their products & tarnish their rivals' names while playing the part of somebody from a particular socio-economic, ethnic and/or age group...