I stopped reading boingboing after I realised that the signal to noise ratio is lower than an unfiltered reddit. There's nothing in there that can't be found by

I stopped reading boingboing after I realised that the signal to noise ratio is lower than an unfiltered reddit. There's nothing in there that can't be found by tuning your RSS reader, except with an RSS reader you can filter out all the garbage. It's a case study in how not to use your time. For every boingboing post out there, there's an interesting paper on arxiv, an insightful post on HN or pictures of cats that look like Hitler on Reddit.