Steven Hodson’s piece today on the continuous importance of mainstream media source for blogging and his dislike for those mainstream news organizations that only publish partial feeds made me think of how partial feeds fit in with the current trends towards using linkblogs as a measure of an article’s popularity.
The answer to me is simple: [...]
MG Siegler went on the Mashable podcast with Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins last night to explain his ideas behind the Elite Tech News reddit. If you wondered what the hell we are up to, the interview is going to give you some background about what we’re all about.
Since then, two more people joined in the effort: [...]
Very few Digg clones manage to impress me these days. They mostly stand out because of their complete lack of innovation.
VoteOften.us, however, which is still in private beta (see last paragraph for how to get an invite), is doing some innovating things, with a focus on politics. With the US presidential election heating up, I [...]
Reddit announced some new features today. Most importantly, they will soon give you the opportunity to run your own reddit:
You will be able to make three kinds of reddits: public, restricted, and private. A public reddit is just like the current reddits: anyone can view and submit to them. A restricted reddit allows anyone to [...]
Forbes yesterday night posted a list of the 25 top web celebrities.
For the Techmeme crowd, the list makes total sense, but with the exception of Perez Hilton, Matt Drudge and Markos Moulitsas, no normal person would ever recognize any of the names on the list.
Did you ever ask a non-techie friend who Jeff Jarvis [...]
So Facebook caved in. Good riddance. Maybe we can move on to another topic now.
Only person to disagree seems to be Dave McClure (who also needs to learn how to capitalize his posts (and seems to have a tempter)):
so if you’re Facebook the real question is: do you want 90% of your users to use [...]
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Update: Scott for Blogcosm clarifies some misunderstandings :
Our approach to analyzing blogs is different than anything we’ve seen. (There’s no shortage of interesting software opportunities; I’ve never been one to create “me too” products or sites.) Because we tackle fewer blogs, we can afford to provide more information about each.
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Marshal Kirkpatrick reports on Bogcosm on [...]
I have to say that I am pretty impressed by some of the developments over at the New York Times.
Not only did they launch a revamped version of the Technology section today, but they also finally integrated Blogrunner, which they bought last year into their portfolio.
The New York Times Bits blog calls Blogrunner the “Robot [...]
Bobbie Johnson over at the Guardian is talking about why we all overestimate Techmeme’s influence. He is mostly looking at the fact that Techmeme doesn’t refer a lot of traffic to their site, even though they are firmly establishing in the Top 100:
But in taking a swipe at the diminishing influence of the biggest sites [...]
I have to give some props to these guys and gals. They managed to construct a small apartment in the Providence Place Mall (in Providence, RI) without being detected and lived there on and off for almost four years:
The casually furnished, unheated apartment was in a 750-square-foot loft beneath an I-beam and above an unused [...]
