Looks like Slashdot’s “Firehose” is finally going public — you know, the social / public voting mechanism for Slashdot stories. Not much to say here, other than the obvious (I won’t say it), but I suppose it’ll be useful in that the Slashdot community can directly talk about the same stories on Slashdot as opposed to Digg. Damn, I *did* say it. ;) [tip: wired]