This week’s website is one of the many websites that I use to satisfy my never ending thirst for all knowledge geeky/nerdy!  It’s Slashdot.  As Slashdot itself says it is “News for nerds. Stuff that matters.”  It’s a website that allows users to submit news stories related to a variety of tech and then users can comment on them.  It is such a popular website that having a story posted on it can cause the Slashdot Effect (or more commonly known on slashdotting)  This happens when a hot story is posted that causes people to click through to the website the story, pictures, etc. is on and the server can’t handle the mass influx of traffic and the website goes down.

Slashdot breaks down the news stories by category so that if you are only interested in certain topics you can view the topics of interest to you.

So if you are looking for a way to keep up some the “News for nerds.” check out Slashdot.  (Keep in mind if you visit it today, April 1, of what day it is – so don’t believe everything you read for today’s stories.)