$7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media
and have only started to realize some improvement on related sites. With ad revenue declining and not expected to pick up (read: everyone who uses Slashdot uses adblocking softwarwe), it appears that the Slashdot stewardship experiment by Dice Holdings has been a financial failure.
Since the site has been redesigned in a user-hostile fashion with a very generic styling, this reader surmises Dice Holdings is looking to transform or transfer the brand into a generic Web 3.0 technology property. The name may be more valuable than the user community (since we drive no revenue nor particularly use Dice.com's services).
Someone needs to take off and nuke beta from orbit.
In the meantime, an AC has suggest that we boycott from the 10th to the 17th.
So, who's up for a Slashdot Valentines Day Massacre?
"Beta is Slashdot's version of Jar-Jar Binks, only worse."
Its hard to dig up a single nugget from under under that pile of tailings I've accumulated over the years.
It's okay; you can blurt it out in three or so days when the article is re-posted.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.