Is it just me, or has this heir apparent to slashdot’s success been compromised as of late.  What has been a nexus of the weird, the geeky and the just plain cool of tech on the web turned into an Apple PR engine.  It seems like there are always multiple copies of stories that show up that usually revolve around either Apple, the iPod and are usually posted from someone’s blog.

The other thing that has been frustrating me of late has been the growing number of inappropriate pieces that wind up on the site as well. 

Having to deal with all the stories marked NSFW (Not Safe For Work – you can guess what that entails), the multiple blog links (that usually go down under the strain) and the just crap that has show up late has me wanting to get my tech news elsewhere :( .

For you non geek readers, it’s been either slashdot.org or digg.com for the last 8 years giving regular tech news to the masses; it’s Publisher’s Weekly, if you will, for the publishing industry.  The problem with digg though is that is primairly user-driven content; it lives and dies by it’s readership.  Since it’s gotten a bit bigger, it tends to attract the lowest common denominator coupled with the site branching out into regular news has done it’s share to dillute the core audience.

Well, we’ll see where it goes; it’s done it’s share of not being impressive lately :( .