Technocrat.net is a collaborative weblog, like the well-known Slashdot. It covers technology news, with a particular focus on technology policy - i.e. how political decisons affect technology. It is the creation of open-source advocate Bruce Perens and is based on Slashcode. Slashdot (frequently abbreviated as /.) is a popular technology-related website, updated many times daily with articles that are short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories, and provisions for readers to comment on the story. ... Bruce Perens Bruce Perens is a prominent figure in the open source movement and to some extent in the free software movement. ... Slash (a backronym for Slashdot Like Automated Story-telling Homepage) is the open source collection of Perl scripts which runs Slashdot, one of the oldest and most popular collaborative weblogs around. ...
The forum's creator describes the site as "more mature than Slashdot". For example, Perens's site does not allow Anonymous Cowards to post and focuses on political issues rather than more light-hearted topics such as gaming. Anonymous Coward is a term applied within some online communities to describe users who post without a handle; it is a dummy name attributed to anonymous posts used by some weblogs that allow posting by people without registering for accounts. ...
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