I hear you, as a geek I read about it all day, and the last thing I want to hear when I'm out shopping/eating and socializing is "hey I started Tweeting" or "I was just on Facebook and found an old classmate"
To which I respond: "Amazing, I'm so thrilled for you, welcome to my 2007."
The middle-man in this case is for discussion. I'm always curious as to what the HN community will say about a topic, and much less interested in what the TC community has to say (more so what Arrington and the crew says).
In every debate there's a moderator or someone to 'get the ball rolling', in this case it's either the users of HN or the editors of TC.
I've been using friendfeed and Twitter for months, but just noticed that FF let's you edit posts after posting. I think I can credit that to the new UI.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 31.3 ms ] threadTo which I respond: "Amazing, I'm so thrilled for you, welcome to my 2007."
Shoot me now.
http://beta.friendfeed.com/
So linking to other aggregators is like linking from HN to digg or reddit, being TC another one of them.
Good netiquette links directly to the source.
In every debate there's a moderator or someone to 'get the ball rolling', in this case it's either the users of HN or the editors of TC.