Joost van Beek

Recent Activity

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  Joost signed the petition | about 1 month ago

  Secretary of Defense: Grant UN Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez Access to Bradley Manning
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  Joost signed the petition | about 1 year ago

  Free Navid Mohebbi, 18-year-old women's rights defender & blogger
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  Joost commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Digg Community Responds to Change.org CR Efforts

  I like Reddit better than Digg for a number of reasons, but a lack of sexism and juvenile behaviour in general is not one of them. There's plenty of that going on there, too; maybe simply a function of the main user group seemingly being young guys of 15-25.
  
  Though again, Reddit is a much better alternative to Digg for a range of other reasons.
  
  Stumbleupon does seem to cater for, and invite, more grown-up usage and interaction. Which is much appreciated. But then the whole underlying idea is a different one, it serves a different purpose.
  
  I'd never heard of Mixx.com until I saw the responses in your other post. It seems a much smaller site, comparatively, a start-up of sorts I presume. Going also on the somewhat cookie-cutter fashion of the posts praising Mixx, I'm guessing they are better seen as inventive marketing than as substantive responses to your post.
  
  I'm still looking for a social news/resources sharing site that does the same as Digg and Reddit but is geared to a more specific audience, to wonks, academics and NGO people and basically, well, grown-ups. If there is one out there, I'd love to know.
  

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  Joost commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Digg Community Responds to Change.org CR Efforts

  I like Reddit better than Digg for a number of reasons, but a lack of sexism and juvenile behaviour in general is not one of them. There's plenty of that going on there, too; maybe simply a function of the main user group seemingly being young guys of 15-25.
  
  Though again, Reddit is a much better alternative to Digg for a range of other reasons.
  
  Stumbleupon does seem to cater for, and invite, more grown-up usage and interaction. Which is much appreciated. But then the whole underlying idea is a different one, it serves a different purpose.
  
  I'd never heard of Mixx.com until I saw the responses in your other post. It seems a much smaller site, comparatively, a start-up of sorts I presume. Going also on the somewhat cookie-cutter fashion of the posts praising Mixx, I'm guessing they are better seen as inventive marketing than as substantive responses to your post.
  
  I'm still looking for a social news/resources sharing site that does the same as Digg and Reddit but is geared to a more specific audience, to wonks, academics and NGO people and basically, well, grown-ups. If there is one out there, I'd love to know.