Category Archives: Shyftr

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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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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