"... I don't see these sort of user driven news aggregation sites have legs ..." In what way? Slashdot is 10 years old so you can create a business from '(tec

"... I don't see these sort of user driven news aggregation sites have legs ..." In what way? Slashdot is 10 years old so you can create a business from '(tech) news aggregation'. "... How do they not end up going the way of Kro5hin after 2-3 years? ..." My stab at it is the further you go mainstream, the more general the majority of topics & information. Could the solution to this be trying to stay to the low-amplitude end of the long tail ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail ) of possible submissions (finding, encouraging posts from obscure original articles, posts) and trying to avoid the popular aggregated posts or high-amplitude (mainstream media searches for stories, add a bit of commentary + add) you see in the mainstream? The real value for readers (in my opinion) is in the access to variety of information. Low amplitude is equals greater diversity of information.