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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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