Slashdot’s effects have diminished. Not surprising really, given slashdot’s news is always a day or two behind the rest of the blogosphere. It’s not often they break news these days.
A year ago, Slashdot contributed 5.5% of all traffic going to tech news sites like CNET (CNET ), Wired, and Gizmodo. But by last month, its power had fallen considerably, estimates Bill Tancer, an analyst at online measurement company Hitwise in Redwood City, Calif. When Tancer measured traffic going from Slashdot to several recent stories to which it linked, he found that, in one case, Slashdot increased a site’s traffic by 4%. In the case of one Reuters wire-service story, no one clicked on the link at all.
From BusinessWeek.
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