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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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akf
2 years 36 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago
no comment
no comment ;-)
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lverona
2 years 36 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago
I think that since lots of
I think that since lots of articles point to other people's blogs, most of the comments are left there. I have many times seen heated discussions there, at people's blogs.
BeS
2 years 36 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago
I agree with lverona
I like to use FSdaily to become an overview what's going on in the Free Software community.
FSdaily doesn't provide full featured articles but "only" summaries of existing articles which often allow me to add my comment directly to the original article.
So why should I add my comment to a summary instead to the complete article? I think that's how most FSdaily users think. Even your article is at FSdaily only a summery of your blog post.
I think the natural way of most FSdaily users is: Scan FSdaily for intersting articles (and vote for them if they think others should read them too)-> go to the article they like -> read the full article -> leave a comment if they feel they have to say something (but at this step they are no longer at the FSdaily website but already at the website of the author of the article).
I would really like to see more comments and discussions at FSdaily but I fear that the concept doesn't really encourage it.
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akf
2 years 36 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago
different audience here
You may have a completely different audience here. Especially for the section "Opposition" it might be useful to post a completely different comment here than on the main-site. Sometimes the post on the original article is just a wasted effort.
knowing-card
2 years 36 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago
Your comments are useful to FSDaily readers too
I think you are missing the point that your comments add value for the readers here at FSDaily. It can be very useful to know what other people think before you go and read the full article. But your comments may be lost if posted on the original article.
lverona
2 years 36 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago
I think one might want to
I think one might want to leave a comment when the article on the original site does not allow for comments.
mariuz
2 years 36 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago
mariuz
maybe you need to link the votes to identi.ca/twitter
for example if i vote a a news item to apear on my profile
Mariuz voted this and commented that
Also another crazy idea if i comment with my openid on the link-ed article and i have an account with openid on fsfdaily , the comment should appear on fsfdaily
too
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