Hacker News Reader

Well, I feel it acts as a security aggregator. There is some original content there at times, but the value, in my opinion, is the commentary, and the aggregation. A lot of people send Schneier news, and a lot of people read his blog. It's a convenience service.

looking at his front page right now, about 20% of the posts have some significant perspective from him.

because of Schneier's credibility and clear explanations, a lot of people who aren't security professionals follow his blog as their primary source for security news. also when he highlights a story, it often leads to additional coverage on places like boing boing, slashdot -- and Hacker News. so his style's optimized for that.

And the Friday squid crap is annoying as well.