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."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 isn't too much work?  Makes no sense.  Aggregators have served a purpose, and will continue to, for a long time.