Meanwhile, over on Planet NZTech (I'll pony up the cash for for planet.geek.nz btw), Richard McManus (You're a manus, nah, you're a manus!) compares Web 2.0 to chmod 777. I think this is a horrible analogy, because to me, chmod 777 implies "anyone who has any access to this data has full access, including overwriting or deleting it". Not the impression you want to give people about their hosted online data!
I'm not sure what to think of the new Slashdot. You can tell that the owners liked their old design a lot.