[ac-slater]

I went to go see CmdrTaco speak in 2005. Someone asked him how to make a website as popular as Slashdot. Malda said to start it in 1997. Of course in the next year the meteoric rise of both digg and reddit began.

I think there is a moral here about not resting on your laurels and never thinking no one can catch up with you.

[icebraining]

>thinking no one can catch up with you.

Did he actually do that, or just told the only way he personally knew how to do it?

[hemos]

The latter. I can testify to that. And if you look back at when Kevin Rose was doing the G4 stuff, there's an interview with Rob where Kevin asks Rob what he would do different. Rob outlines basically Slashdot + user voting. A few months later, Digg comes out. True story.

[ktsmith]

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/8892/interview-with-cmdrtaco-slas...

October 2004 for the interview and Digg launched in December.