Comments on: Leaving TechMeme http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:41:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alexander van Elsas http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96206 Alexander van Elsas Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:21:18 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96206 Hi Chris, it's not just TechMeme, but also the major sites all coming up wiht the same "exclusive" scoops. People get into a vacuum and don't get out of it, unless you change your reading behavior. But there is still lots of new and great things to be found on the web: http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/re-discovering-great-things-on-the-web/ Hi Chris,
it’s not just TechMeme, but also the major sites all coming up wiht the same “exclusive” scoops. People get into a vacuum and don’t get out of it, unless you change your reading behavior.
But there is still lots of new and great things to be found on the web:
http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/re-discovering-great-things-on-the-web/

]]> By: Jeremiah Owyang http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96200 Jeremiah Owyang Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:18:22 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96200 I completely agree, there's so much echo, and that's why I wrote this piece http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/10/16/bloggers-stop-wasting-techmeme-real-estate/ I completely agree, there’s so much echo, and that’s why I wrote this piece

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/10/16/bloggers-stop-wasting-techmeme-real-estate/

]]> By: Christopher Allen http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96196 Christopher Allen Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:50:39 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96196 I left TechMeme and similar pages a while ago because of what I call "Tyranny of the Popular". Of the entirety of the long tail of conversations on the web, I don't want all the huge tail end, but I also don't want the asymptotic top of the tail either. No tools I've found yet can help me automate finding these 'tween conversions. I left TechMeme and similar pages a while ago because of what I call “Tyranny of the Popular”.

Of the entirety of the long tail of conversations on the web, I don’t want all the huge tail end, but I also don’t want the asymptotic top of the tail either. No tools I’ve found yet can help me automate finding these ‘tween conversions.

]]> By: sean coon http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96194 sean coon Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:32:41 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96194 <a href="http://www.seancoon.org/2007/09/on_hiatus.html" rel="nofollow">change</a> is good. change is good.

]]> By: TechMeme, Bitchmeme, Watercooler » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96191 TechMeme, Bitchmeme, Watercooler » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:51:20 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96191 [...] TechMeme does foster an “echo effect.” This post is a case in point. It’s like one sees a bunch of people yapping about a [...] [...] TechMeme does foster an “echo effect.” This post is a case in point. It’s like one sees a bunch of people yapping about a [...]

]]> By: Anne Truitt Zelenka » links for 2007-10-21 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96188 Anne Truitt Zelenka » links for 2007-10-21 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:20:56 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96188 [...] Leaving TechMeme | FactoryCity Chris Messina: “I’m going to have to go back to piecing things together one by one on my own; digging up my own dirt, assembling my own theories instead of the ones advanced by crowd economics, …” (tags: techmeme memeorandum knowledge blogging) [...] [...] Leaving TechMeme | FactoryCity Chris Messina: “I’m going to have to go back to piecing things together one by one on my own; digging up my own dirt, assembling my own theories instead of the ones advanced by crowd economics, …” (tags: techmeme memeorandum knowledge blogging) [...]

]]> By: Chris Messina http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96186 Chris Messina Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:02:09 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96186 @Zach -- thanks. @Gabe: we shall see. Dreaming in ocean green <em>does</em> have a certain appeal to it. @Sam: when I'm ready for aggregated news again, I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip! @MG: I'm not actually leaving because of the popularity contest/leaderboard controversy. I kind of take that kind of thing for granted on TechMeme. What I'm really leaving is TechMeme's subset of news. It's no real slight against TechMeme, it's just that I'm looking for some new influences on my thinking! ;) @Dave: Thanks for that. Hadn't thought about kicking <em>myself</em> out of TechMeme, but that's a good thing to consider as well. It'll certainly keep me wondering less about whether anything I've written has hit the index! ;) @Zach — thanks.

@Gabe: we shall see. Dreaming in ocean green does have a certain appeal to it.

@Sam: when I’m ready for aggregated news again, I’ll check it out. Thanks for the tip!

@MG: I’m not actually leaving because of the popularity contest/leaderboard controversy. I kind of take that kind of thing for granted on TechMeme. What I’m really leaving is TechMeme’s subset of news. It’s no real slight against TechMeme, it’s just that I’m looking for some new influences on my thinking! ;)

@Dave: Thanks for that. Hadn’t thought about kicking myself out of TechMeme, but that’s a good thing to consider as well. It’ll certainly keep me wondering less about whether anything I’ve written has hit the index! ;)

]]> By: http://www.scripting.com/ http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96185 http://www.scripting.com/ Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:46:16 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96185 There'a another way to leave Techmeme, block it from crawling your site in your robots.txt file. To be excluded from the TM crawler, put these two lines in your robots.txt file. User-agent: Wazzup Disallow: / There’a another way to leave Techmeme, block it from crawling your site in your robots.txt file.

To be excluded from the TM crawler, put these two lines in your robots.txt file.

User-agent: Wazzup

Disallow: /

]]> By: MG Sielger http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96184 MG Sielger Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:26:00 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96184 All fair points and I can certainly see where you're coming from, but my advice would be to sit back and weather the storm. I think this bitching/self-referential session about Techmeme will soon yield to actual news again. I've already suggested a 'backpage' of sorts for Techmeme, to allow those who don't simply write about the biggest stories of the day to be showcased, maybe something will come of that. All fair points and I can certainly see where you’re coming from, but my advice would be to sit back and weather the storm. I think this bitching/self-referential session about Techmeme will soon yield to actual news again.

I’ve already suggested a ‘backpage’ of sorts for Techmeme, to allow those who don’t simply write about the biggest stories of the day to be showcased, maybe something will come of that.

]]> By: Sam Sethi http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-96182 Sam Sethi Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:58:12 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/20/leaving-techmeme/#comment-96182 Hi Chris The new homepage on blognation is an alternative to techmeme. We are building up the sites we cover globally but of the 300 bloggers we now track (globally) what surprised me the most was the lack of repetion in the conversation. I too felt techmeme had stifled the conversation around a few big networks but am glad to say the blogosphere is alive and well if we just look further a field. Although we have built the new homepage to replicate the functionality of techmeme e.g if a story is covered by several bloggers we will link them together but so far there has been very little need to do so as 90% of the stories have been varied. The tag line for blognation is one nation, many voices. We have built out the countries now we are adding the voices. Hi Chris

The new homepage on blognation is an alternative to techmeme. We are building up the sites we cover globally but of the 300 bloggers we now track (globally) what surprised me the most was the lack of repetion in the conversation. I too felt techmeme had stifled the conversation around a few big networks but am glad to say the blogosphere is alive and well if we just look further a field.

Although we have built the new homepage to replicate the functionality of techmeme e.g if a story is covered by several bloggers we will link them together but so far there has been very little need to do so as 90% of the stories have been varied.

The tag line for blognation is one nation, many voices. We have built out the countries now we are adding the voices.

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