I can understand the sentiment but not the body of the argument. We may be bombarded with information, and that's why many of us turn to aggregation sites like techmeme itself to pull out a subset of the news we want, for the quantity that we what. That's why many of us no longer subscribe directly to gizmodo or techcrunch, but to HN or techmeme.<p>The author may be able to pull out a date in may where techmeme had questionable 'news', but how is this different to the slow news days in print media mentioned in the introduction? Techmeme's job is to provide a page or two's worth of tech-related news a day, just like a newspaper provides 60 pages of world news daily. TM applies it's own 'judgement and discretion' (both with it's algorithm and with human editors); HN does the same.<p>Such aggregation sites are the solution to the problem, not the problem itself. I personally find that hackernews is a 'twice daily' type product, where a single check in the morning and the evening keeps me up to date with the right dosage for my technews. For world news, I read the Guardian's G24 PDF for a daily summary (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g24" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/g24</a>). These are solutions the internet provides for the issue of constantly streaming news.<p>Now if you find that the 'refresh rate' of HN or techmeme etc is too frequent, i'm sure there are sites out there that aggregate in a bi-weekly, weekly or even monthly rate. If there aren't there's certainly a market for it (for the same reason there are weekly and monthly magazine publications). But it's not beyond the capabilities of 'the internet' to find a solution that fits you.