Monthly Archives: April 2008

Meme13 — A Scraper Blog — Gets Facetime On Techmeme. Yay.

UPDATE 4/15/08 @ 2347h: Some sophomoric geekish “humour” above, but as Jason mentioned below, this post is #1 on meme13 right now.
In a well-meaning gesture, Rogers Cadenhead has whipped up some code that tracks the last 13 bloggers on the Techmeme Leaderboard 100, called Meme13, in an effort to spread the word about lesser known [...]

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Blogging’s Naked Truth

Sarah Perez at Read/Write Web wonders whether or not content is finally / just now becoming a commodity, referencing the Shyftr saga over the weekend, and with particular reference to bloggers.  The funny thing (of course, not in a ‘ha ha’ way) is that this truth that she is stumbling upon, is one of the [...]

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I Love Techmeme But … (Part II)

Ah, Techmeme. The news aggregator bloggers love to love (or hate with equal measure). Two months ago I bemoaned how it wasn’t picking up what I perceived to be the most important news item (but eventually did).
Today I bemoan how long it takes to pick up news, period.
Techmeme does a great many things [...]

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Shyftr Does The Right Thing, Encourages Bloggers To Both Suck And Blow

I was wondering last night, as I was randomly thinking about new media things (as I am wont to do on occasion) that it was odd that in the kerfuffle around Shyftr that the actual Shyftr blog hadn’t mentioned anything about it.
{total aside: isn’t it odd that a service built around hosting conversation has *disabled* [...]

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REVIEW: AlertThingy Rocks (But Is Mute To Twitter)

If following conversations in the blogo/social media/o-sphere is important to you / is your thang, then its time to rejoice, because AlertThingy is here.  Running as an Adobe AIR application, this desktop application (unlike the other Friendfeed app which needed you to install the NET Framework) is quick and snappy, and just like your favorite [...]

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Getting Back To Blogging’s Origins

My life — as, perhaps your life — is complicated.  There are a lot of competing concerns, from personal issues, to work issues, to family issues and beyond.  And that’s not even counting the blogging.  One really interesting thing is that as I am ramping up towards a new DJI (one day soon, I hope), [...]

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Fine, I’ll Say It: Shyftr Crosses The Line

Well, I can already tell what the headlining post this weekend is going to be on Techmeme (or bitchmeme, a la MG), and its going to probably revolve around Shyftr, a relatively new service in the RSS aggregating category (and lo, since I started writing, it has begun!)
Or, should I say “scraping” category?
No, you’re right [...]

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