Dennis Forbes on Pragmatic Software Development
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Wednesday, February 21 2007

Over the past 24 hours I've logged several hundred inbound visitors vectored over from http://www.dzone.com (I swear that I seldom check the stats -- honest to goodness cross my heart -- but I just happened to right after getting up this morning. It caught my eye as it wasn't one of the usual suspects). Fairly interesting programming-specific Digg/Reddit-like site, with a useful collection of links.

Just thought I'd mention it for those readers looking for something different. This isn't a reciprocity link, but rather that I truly found it a decent site with different content than the regulars.

Sidenote: One thing that I've always found fascinating about sites like that is the incredibly small percentage of users who actually "vote". I've been Digg'd, Slashdotted, Reddit'd, and now dzone'd, and I'd say that less than 5% of users who follow the links actually declare their feelings (in the case of Digg I would put the percentage even lower). While some of the sites don't allow for a negative vote, Reddit does but even there less than 1 in 10 link navigator expresses their feeling one way or the other.

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Dennis Forbes - Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect and technology writer