“The news web is straight trash”

I've been returning to Slashdot more and more these days .. and lobste.rs is pretty good too, although a bit click-baity as well.

I think its time for a de-centralized approach to this whole problem again - a USENET 2.0 with smart agents would be nice. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that the aggregation isn't the problem - its the content creation in the first place. The communities that band together to create a content platform eventually self-implode into themselves, so there has to be some other way to get technology news and interesting articles out there. Perhaps there is no perfect answer, and that its all just a process rather than a product after all ..

I've never visited smithsonianmag.com in my life. Yet, there are four articles from that site on the front page right now.

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