And these techniques are great as it allows you to get a handle on issues as quickly as possible, that perhaps weren’t directly reported (or reportable), and get a better idea of impact. A great benefit of mining social networks (that doesn’t involve trying to market something to me)

I find this weird too, the Mozilla Blog usually dupes the info on Devnews, and doesn’t offer anything else useful.

At least on delicious, most people link to the all-beta page, since it’s pretty and has a prominent download link. But that page doesn’t do a great job of telling you what’s new or what to be careful about.

Then there’s the devnews post, which tells people to link to it but is much less inviting. It’s a bunch of text, most of which is irrelevant to many beta users. It emphasizes warnings in too many ways, which ends up annoying me more than drawing my attention to them. And it tries to encourage users to read the release notes, which as even longer and lower signal-to-noise.

Then the devnews post is replicated on the Mozilla Blog, so there are *two* non-inviting pages telling people to link only to them.