Comments on: Meme 13 – it’s a scraper blog

By: Bill Aue

Bill Aue — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:50:53 +0000

FYI, TechMacro.com (mentioned in your post) now shows only excerpts of feeds but have 2 options for our readers.

1. Go to original post (we always give BIG link back)
2. Read the post directly in the site (in an IFRAME)

I personally think full feed is the best thing in blogsphere and that is one of good reasons why your blogs have grown up so far.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:32:08 +0000

What confuses me about Meme 13 is this. If you wanted to “discover” bloggers from the lower end of TechMeme couldn’t you simply visit TechMeme and look at the bottom of the leaderboard? It’s like someone releasing a service called “Page 4″ and you give it a search terms and it gives you “Page 4 of Google results”. But that’s a minor thing…

This is major, to me: I would like to know how services like Yahoo! Pipes and AideRSS have come out of this weeks entire mess unscathed?? Can we see some fairness around here? Where is the REAL implication for the corporate bloggers income? In services like Shyftr and Meme13 who try to at least build awareness of the content and the source (neither one attempts to even APPEAR as though they own or otherwise have any authority over the content, it’s all about getting people in front of bloggers they will love to read/subscribe to)?? Or in a service like Yahoo! Pipes that allows anyone to “mashup” a web-service or RSS feed… including just the nodes they want, for what they want… we’re talking attribution stripped, content co-mingled with competitor content, links back to you potentially removed along with your logo/image for brand identity??

I just want the blogosphere to be careful. We are quick to react and slow to research. Shyftr, Meme13… these aren’t your enemies. These are on YOUR side… wanting to get exposure for YOU. Yahoo! Pipes encourages people to use their service to dismantle, disengage, and disenfranchise bloggers. Yet not one blogger has brought them into question regarding this mess. (And if someone has, I have not found them YET because we are in desperate need of “social” services around RSS… like Shyftr is!!! See the irony here?) So anyway… I would like to see bloggers with passion (Like Mr. Hung) start to focus some attention on the REAL problems… the Pipes, the Aides, etc. The people who actually ENCOURAGE feed tampering.

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Meme13 - Thoughts of a Featured Blogger — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:54:29 +0000

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By: Frederic

Frederic — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:29:44 +0000

I admit it’s something I’m still sorting out in my head – maybe I have to stick to my line and say I’m okay with it because of the ‘curating’ aspect, but somehow this seems to cross a line because of the SEO aspects that come with it…

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:12:11 +0000

Its interesting where that line is for all of us.

Seems like for you is in where the value is created; Meme13 will argue that its “curating” a special series of blogs for you to read, dynamically updated to keep up with one of the most popular tech-blogging benchmarks there is (my words, not his).

Isn’t that of any importance?