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"... no matter how techie or startup they sound. NY Times, WSJ, etc. They're written for too broad an audience compared to the focused info I expect to find on
by bootload 18y ago
"... no matter how techie or startup they sound. NY Times, WSJ, etc. They're written for too broad an audience compared to the focused info I expect to find on HN ..."
A lot of the times these articles have the benefit of being written where tech & the broader community collide. That's interesting. Also it's the comments that are spawned from an article that are the best HN component. If I wanted to read tech-articles alone I'd trawl delicious, friendfeed, twitter et.,al.
- saundby 18y agoI'm not just looking for tech articles, there's DZone for that. Rather, what I value more from HN is the first person viewpoint, rather than the commoditized views channeled through a reporter/editor to serve a general audience, rather than one personally engaged. That said, there are general audience articles that I think are significant because they reflect a viewpoint that's important to to entrepreneurs. But they're few enough among the submissions that I'm scanning URLs before I even click, tending to avoid NYT, businessweek, etc. since my experience is my time is better spent elsewhere. I can get the mass media viewpoints off my Wii. ;)