The Slashdot supremacy: how a Michigan geek tamed the online masses

Article Abstract:

Rob Malda's Slashdot website cherry-picks and links to sites that would interest computer afficionados. The site gets about 500,000 visitors a day and the site caters and receives around 200 to 500 stories a day but only carries 20 to 30 of them. Comments on the site are managed by moderators on the site that select only worthwhile comments.

Services information, Michigan, Services, Influence, Works, Webmasters, Website overview, Slashdot (Website), Malda, Rob

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The social life of engineers: Sally Ride shows girls how to be with their friends and still pursue science and technology

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Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman astronaut, talks about her efforts to facilitate science- and technology-related activities for girls. Ride is now a physics professor at the University of California, San Diego, and chief executive of Imaginary Lines Inc.

Government domestic functions, Public affairs, Social aspects, Column, Social policy, Interview, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women engineers, Educational aspects, Women astronauts, Women in astronautics, Ride, Sally

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Engineering everquest

Article Abstract:

Sony's Everquest is the best selling computer game played on the Internet that provides online entertainment with the design of graphic chips at a reasonable price.

Game, Toy, and Children's Vehicle Manufacturing, Games, toys, and children's vehicles, Electronic Games, Product/Service Evaluation, Video games, Sony Everquest (Video game)

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