Archive for the “techmeme” category

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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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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Newspond: Saccharine, Misbegotten Child Of Digg And Techmeme?

by Tony Hung on February 20, 2008

Contrary to what some believe, Newspond, the latest entry into the news aggregator scene, isn’t really teh awesome. Here’s the two second run down: it aggregators news, like Techmeme.  It allows you to comment, like Digg. Sure, there’s a fancy (…)

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On Media Literacy, “Email Apnea”, and Wonderfully Large Leaps Of Logic.

by Tony Hung on February 17, 2008

A rather apropros piece, this about “email apnea”, courtesy of the Huffington Post, pimped by Robert Scoble, while in turn was of course reflexively promoted by Techmeme (and other news aggregators, possibly). “Apnea” referring to a period of time where (…)

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I Love Techmeme, But …

by Tony Hung on February 17, 2008

Update: My faith in Techmeme comes through — Techmeme finally gets it right.  Yay! {albeit more than 24h after the original Reuters article was pushed out} To be honest, Blogrunner seems to have the same “problem”. But for my money, (…)

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The Power Of Techmeme Over Bloggers is … Pretty Astounding.

by Tony Hung on November 24, 2007

In what must be the softest headlining story of the month, Mike Arrington’s story of how Digg users are having a look at a Digg clone called Mixx has made it to the top of Techmeme. I have nothing to (…)

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I Will Push Mat Ingram’s Post On Techmeme

by Tony Hung on November 19, 2007

This is Mat Ingram’s post over here, where he talks a little bit about how Techmeme diversifying to non-blogs is a good thing — and that the good ol’ blogosphere in the good ol’ days, sounds a little bit like (…)

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