Wouldn't it be more useful to have one site that could aggregate these articles across the popular sites and make sub-sites when something reaches a critical mass?
I think I recall a startup that tried doing this a few years ago by making the discussion happen on the site. Is anyone working on this? Do any of you do this already with some program/site?
Ask YC: Why do we read so many different sites for the same news?
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Re: Ask YC: Why do we read so many different sites for the same news?
#2I think lots of people would really dig that idea. Years from now, they'll think of your comment and wish they'd read it earlier. I hope some hacker comes up with a news source like that. It would be a delicious accomplishment we'd all savor.
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#4This is one of those ideas that has been floating around in the group collective. I know I was in discussions about something like this a few months ago. If you can do it, go for it. It'd be great.
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#5This is more or less, what Google News is doing. :-)
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#7This is one of those ideas that has been floating around in the group collective. I know I was in discussions about something like this a few months ago. If you can do it, go for it. It'd be great.
Well, I'd love to do it but am lacking the time. Plus I actually like my job (go figure). Any thoughts?
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#8This is one of those ideas that has been floating around in the group collective. I know I was in discussions about something like this a few months ago. If you can do it, go for it. It'd be great.
I also toyed with an idea like this at some point, but it seemed to me that aggregating the big 4 or 5 aggregators is unnecessary, while aggregating much more than that (something like Techmeme but broad-based?) takes you into Google/Technorati territory, fairly large scale processing and intensive ML stuff. There are also quite a few RSS-filtering/recommending startups out there already.
I do have the feeling there is an angle I was missing though, and I'd be glad to be proved wrong!
Re: Ask YC: Why do we read so many different sites for the same news?
#9This is one of those ideas that has been floating around in the group collective. I know I was in discussions about something like this a few months ago. If you can do it, go for it. It'd be great.
I also toyed with an idea like this at some point, but it seemed to me that aggregating the big 4 or 5 aggregators is unnecessary, while aggregating much more than that (something like Techmeme but broad-based?) takes you into Google/Technorati territory, fairly large scale processing and intensive ML stuff. There are also quite a few RSS-filtering/recommending startups out there already. I do have the feeling there…
My main thought is that those solutions aren't really creating a dialog. Sure they're bring users to that site, but it seems hard to connect all the different discussion points with an event. A great example would be the drama this summer over PG's comments re: age, or all the hoopla around twitter's scaling issues.
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#10The reason I visit certain sites is for the community, not the news. Slashdot was good, then reddit, then programming.reddit, and now n.yc. They all carry similar news, but the people are what make me come and go.
The next big site could be www.dzone.com. They have a bunch of good stories, but unfortunately no community. Everything of interest there gets cross posted to programming.reddit and here, and I think they generally have it first.