I’m sorry to say it, but it’s true: Slashdot is useless. Once my primary source of cutting-edge technology news, Slashdot has degraded in quality immensely in recent months. Slashdot has always had an open bias, but as of late, the bias has been so blatant that topics are rarely evaluated on merit anymore. Folks, believe it or not, open source is not always the answer to everything.

When Slashdot was just a hobbyist site, these faults were easily excusable. All of us are well aware of the extra burden involved in maintaining a site in addition to a 40 hour a week career. But for the editors running Slashdot, this isn’t a hobby anymore. This is their full-time job. The paid editors have done a terrible, terrible job of filtering and proof reading articles before publishing them.

Still, I stuck around, mainly because there was no equivalent that gave me the information I needed. But with the introduction of Digg, that has changed. Digg brings you up to date information with a modern, easy to navigate Web 2.0 inferface. Popular articles are determined by the users themselves, side-stepping the editor process entirely. And what I really like about Digg is that it provides a “blog this” feature which supports all major blog publishing software packages.

I do worry that as Digg expands, it will begin to experience many of the same issues that Slashdot faces today. But I think I’ll worry about that when it happens. Until then, farewell Slashdot.