Barrapunto
Barrapunto is a Spanish-language Slashdot-like website, founded on 7 June 1999, which is part of a complex social network among Spanish-language websites.[1] In 2006, it was the winner of a 20Blogs Award from the online newspaper 20 minutos, in the category "Mejor comunidad de un blog" (best blog community).[2] The site and its community have also been the subject of both English- and Spanish-language academic research.
The name is derived in the same manner as Slashdot, with the Spanish "http://" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra" and "http://barrapunto.com" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra-barra-punto-punto-com". Barrapunto runs Slash, the open source software used by Slashdot, and materials are published under CC-BY.
Barrapunto was founded by six professionals and teachers in 1999 as a meeting point for the free software community. By 2005 more than half a million comments had been posted and almost 40,000 stories.[3]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Social Network of barrapunto, visualcomplexity. Accessed July 27, 2008.
- ^ Premios 20Blogs. Accessed July 27, 2008.
- ^ "Barrapunto celebra su sexto aniversario". Noticiasdot.com. http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2005/0605/1106/noticias/noticias_110605-04.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
[edit] External links
- Barrapunto
- Barrapunto vs. Slashdot: Challenging the Scalability of Self-Moderated Communities - a presentation by computer scientists Samuel Navarro and Gwendal Simon comparing the use of moderation on Barrapunto and Slashdot
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