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Did you read what Malda said after that? He then explained why that isn't a suitable alternative for the exact reasons you just stated.

He basically explained you have to eat all the insignificant minutia of individual peoples' daily lives, no matter their public stature, if you want their opinions and views on the world at the same time.

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Eventually people will do that for you, as a service, and then give you just a digest of the interesting things those people had to say without all the inane minutiae.

These people will be called "editors," and the circle will be complete.

The cool thing that happens on Twitter is that interesting thoughts and news are re-tweeted, so if somebody important says something meaningful, there's a big chance that you'll see it without paying too much attention.

Yes, but you will also see useless minutia about the lives of the people who re-tweeted the originals.

Also mimicing Slashdot: after-the-fact dupes!

I did, and wasn't sure why he even bothered saying the first part (unless it was edited out of sequence or something). Regardless of the problems, he seemed pretty down on aggregators, and seemed more about following specific people for news.

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