I also subscribe to steve yegge's rss feed, raganwald's, jeff atwood's, joel spolsky's, paul graham's, xkcd's, TED's, and so on. It would be ludicrous to try to get people to stop posting links from all the sites I subscribe to.
You should be able to subscribe to the RSS directly at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=KCPCxw8t3RGoQM1MLe...
There's an easier technique with no code required. Access http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/ and list all of the terms that you don't want, for example, -alleyinsider -codinghorror -techcrunch ( http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... ). Then subscribe to the RSS.
http://internetducttape.com/2008/05/23/filtering-reddit-and-...
He figures they're a pretty good filter, and if anything important or interesting happens he'll hear about it through them.
I take a similar approach with Hacker News. You guys are my filter. 90% of TechCrunch articles are uninteresting to me, but the other 10% usually get posted to Hacker News.
Same with a lot of other sites. I prefer lots of niche blogs/news sites to the more mainstream and high traffic sites.
I'm certainly in the 10%. I bet >10% here don't even open/visit an RSS reader every day.
If your "90% guess" is right, then if the story gets points in HN, then the fact that "is worth it for a read" is only increased.
I don't see where is the problem.
Oh, you know I guess the 10% reads Paul Buchheit blog, or 105% reads Paul Gragham essays from his site, 60% reads Philip Greenspun's blog, 25% reads Aaron Swartz blog. With the same logic no story should be submitted.
I am sure you are going to say but their posts are not subbmited every day. Well that's because they don't write so often something of general interest, which means that TC because of the fact that is writting too many stories they have higher potential of hitting something of general interest more often...
I don't see where is the problem
I'm guessing it's closer to 10%...
This is true for news from other sources by the way. I see the problem as an infoglut rather than any sort of predisposition towards one source over another.
I do however read TC:UK, @mbites does a pretty good job there without pollution from mike arrington's insufferable soapboxing/linkbaiting
I'd love to be able to just pull Eric Schonfeld's TC material and leave the rest to rot
I'd guess it's much less than that. I used to have TC in my feed, but there were so many articles it was hard to keep up. I've found that, at least relative to my interests, the signal-to-noise ratio at TechCrunch is too low; Hacker News is my filter for picking out the signal.
Personally, I agree with you. I think it's pretty lame that almost all of the daily TC stories get posted here, regardless of what the article talks about.
