[tlrobinson]

In his book (The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership) Steven Sample (the president of my alma mater, USC) talks about how he doesn't read newspapers, but rather gets his news from his peers.

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.

[RyanGWU82]

I'm the same way -- I don't browse TechCrunch myself, but I appreciate links to relevant and interesting TC articles.

[s3graham]

Ditto. When I hit the main TC page, most of it seems like banal self-involved crap. But, if it gets past you guys first, it might be worth reading.

I'm certainly in the 10%. I bet >10% here don't even open/visit an RSS reader every day.