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 bloggers.  It turns out that this very blog is on the bottom 13 (I feel like this is American Idol, or something), but I’m not in bad company: Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick is down there, as is Darren Rowse’s Problogger.net,  Thomas Hawke’s blog.

Look, I am not pretending that this blog is great, but its certainly not “new” (granted, circa 2006 isn’t vintage either); but those kind of methodological issues aren’t really what stand out.

What does is the fact that — irrespective of the engine behind it (I mean, it could be monkeys skimming the Techmeme leaderboard, for all that I understand about how it could be coded) — Meme13 is simply pulling feeds and republishing them all.

Like any good ol’ scraper blog.

Now, perhaps Rogers wasn’t around this weekend, but one of the larger memes was around Shyftr and how *IT* was pulling full feeds and republishing them (well, that was one aspect of it).  I didn’t think it was such a hot idea, and others didn’t as well.  In fact, there may be legal ramifications for republishing RSS feeds that two professionals (one lawyer, one consultant) weighed in on.

Ultimately, Shyftr ended up changing their policies (to some degree).  And what do we get today?  More of the GD same — and what’s really funny (again, not in a ha ha way) is not even that Meme13 acknowledges what side of the debate its on, but that its apparently deaf to one of the bigger memes on the leaderboard that its supposedly tracking, and, one of the “bottom 13″ that it wants to highlight who felt pretty vocal about the issue (me)!

I am flabbergasted, exhausted, and … just flabbergasted.

I have neither the time, nor inclination to serve DMCA notices, so maybe, like a bunch of people have suggested, I’ll go back to serving partial feeds after all.