The Linuxologist

Despite all it’s faults and slip-ups, I absolutely love Digg. It has provided me great content, some inspiring, some funny, and others downright outrageous! But as any one would tell you, any social network is only as good as it’s users, and Digg doesn’t seem to be lacking on those. However, any great digger [...]

I recently wrote a blog post about Mixx’s new breaking news feature, which basically gives Mixx super users (SuperMixxers) the ability to flag a certain submission as “breaking”, two flag takes the story to the more prominent Breaking section on the site, giving it more exposure. On paper that sounds just perfect, but since I [...]

I mean it casts doubt in your heart, there is a tiny possibility that anything you read or hear is a total bullocks! The whole intertubes just turns into one big circus! I don’t know what this is, either Digg went apeshit or another Fools Day joke :S. Hell even this might be “shopped” [...]

Social news websites are all the rave these days on web land, the basic idea is that users submit their news stories and then the community votes up or down. While such sites provide you with new and fresh content daily, but when it comes to breaking news it royally fails. For example, this year’s [...]

I have written a guest post over at Polishlinux on howto get the most out of social media on your Ubuntu box. That’s my first guest blog! W00T!
Sometimes I get the feeling that Web 2.0 is just too fancy for Linux, loads of tools, websites, and apps are being developed without taking Linux users into [...]