Meme13 — A Scraper Blog — Gets Facetime On Techmeme. Yay.
by Tony Hung on April 15, 2008
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 (…)
Blogging’s Naked Truth
by Tony Hung on April 14, 2008
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 (…)
I Love Techmeme But … (Part II)
by Tony Hung on April 13, 2008
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 (…)
Shyftr Does The Right Thing, Encourages Bloggers To Both Suck And Blow
by Tony Hung on April 13, 2008
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 (…)
REVIEW: AlertThingy Rocks (But Is Mute To Twitter)
by Tony Hung on April 13, 2008
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 (…)
Getting Back To Blogging’s Origins
by Tony Hung on April 12, 2008
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 (…)
Fine, I’ll Say It: Shyftr Crosses The Line
by Tony Hung on April 12, 2008
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 (…)