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

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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.

Author: Kushner, David
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2007
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.

Author: Kushner, David
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2003
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

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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.

Author: Kushner, David
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2005
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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