Dan Dipstik was sitting up one night with his mom and pet ferret, trying to conjure up some interesting technology news. They finally found the perfect blog, it was called TechCrunch and it once followed cool, innovate young start-ups. However, checking the site recently and to much disappointment, Dan saw that it was again filled with crap. I know this has happened to you: You find a great website, immediately add them to your RSS reader and then it gets big and goes to shit as it whores itself for cheap clicks and page impressions.
Well, Dipstick put his programming skills to good use, and spent four hours that night creating the TechCrunch Crap Notifier, which, similar to a more original and better service that I've chosen not to write about, eliminates the Carpal Tunnel involved with constantly refreshing TechCrunch on the rough hope that Michael Arrington may write something again.
TechCrunch Crap Notifier sends you the below email whenever one of your pre-determined selected hacks posts another piece of drivel. All you have to do is go to the site and choose one of TechCrunch's illustrious crew of 'reporters' that you wish to avoid and then you'll know when not to bother with the site.
To: Entrepreneur
Subject: WTF?
And you thought the Quora obsession was bad?
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/.../
Dipstick acknowledges that a TechCrunch Interesting Post notifier might be more useful, but said there wasn't enough data to get a proper Alpha up and running.
