Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News
"I don’t think it’s going to work that way any more. I think that the power has decentralized. Successful people on Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what’s happening around the universe."<p>But then, I have to know to follow those people.  And I get a load of crap from them about their lives and networks that I don't want.  Somehow having to 'click through' 30 links on HN is too much work, but constantly keeping up with the latest hot people on twitter <i>isn't</i> too much work?  Makes no sense.  Aggregators have served a purpose, and will continue to, for a long time.