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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The editor and the crowd
by dmv at 11:40 am EST, Mar 9, 2006 |
Last weekend, two prominent technology bloggers, Dave Winer of the venerable Scripting News and Robert Scoble of the Microsoft-sponsored Scobleizer, expressed their frustration with Tech Memeorandum, a popular website that highlights the headlines of technology-related stories appearing in blogs, newspapers and other media. In Winer's view, Memeorandum has turned into a tedious contest "with one blogger trying to top another for the most vacuous post." Scoble, echoing Winer's complaint, announced that he was going to avoid looking at Memeorandum "for at least a week" and instead rely on his self-selected RSS feeds to track technology news. Others have also been critical of Memeorandum, suggesting that its content is overly narrow or that it draws from too small a pool of sources.
Difference between Memestreams and Memeorandum, apparently, is that the small pool for Memeorandum is A-list; Memestreams has lower profile technologists. |
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RE: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The editor and the crowd
by Decius at 1:53 pm EST, Mar 9, 2006 |
dmv wrote:
Difference between Memestreams and Memeorandum, apparently, is that the small pool for Memeorandum is A-list; Memestreams has lower profile technologists.
Memeorandum is an aggregator of A-list feeds. Its really not that special, in that there is a human there deciding whats worth tracking. This attention stuff is interesting, but the format seems like its going to get LARGE. They are designing a system for sharing reputation data before they have figured out how to use it (and, therefore, what data is actually useful). I need to spend time thinking about this... |
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