Wednesday
Apr072010
I Don't Want to Make a Techmeme Competitor, But...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 4:00PM
Techmeme is really good at one thing, discovering and ranking important breaking news fast. While I may at times bitch about Techmeme (as many others have) they are my first destination to find out the latest breaking news in the tech world, and obviously what Gabe Rivera is doing is working. Techmeme now has a full-time editorial staff and is one of the few aggregators out there making a profit and not getting bitched at about "stealing" content.
With all that said, I do have one major issue with Techmeme, and that is many times posts that are breaking news contain very little substance, and many of the same blogs are making headlines on a daily basis. This is not Techmeme's fault persay, after all, only so many tech blogs can break news, but I feel smaller/personal blogs who contribute a lot more thought and analysis to these stories are getting the short end of the stick just because there post is an hour after the fact. These smaller bloggers are the ones, IMO, who need to be listened to.
So, I have a proposal.
I want to turn what is currently a blog called Layered Byte into an aggregator that aggregates the latest opinions from personal blogs based off of what Techmeme deems important at that time. Like I said, Techmeme is good at what it does, and it makes no sense for us to not use them as the basis for the personal blog articles we should highlight on this new aggregator.
Now, the real question, why am I telling you this?
Because I know a lot of people reading this right now write on their own blog, and many of them write great posts on the latest hot topics that don't get the attention they deserve. The idea right now is still in the incubation stage, but I am very dead set on getting the ball rolling, and I need suggestions from personal bloggers on what they would like to see. Also, if any of the Techmeme peeps want to chime in, feel free, I know two of you out there occasionally stop by :D
So take the time to email me your thoughts (holdenpage@gmail.com) or comment. I would love to hear them before I get started.
P.S. I know that Techmeme has a discussion link. If I am going to be blunt, it blows. I have been on the discussion end of things NUMEROUS times, traffic is low and your name is not put out there at all, especially when your swimming in the sea of other discussions on a particularly important/controversial piece of breaking news.
With all that said, I do have one major issue with Techmeme, and that is many times posts that are breaking news contain very little substance, and many of the same blogs are making headlines on a daily basis. This is not Techmeme's fault persay, after all, only so many tech blogs can break news, but I feel smaller/personal blogs who contribute a lot more thought and analysis to these stories are getting the short end of the stick just because there post is an hour after the fact. These smaller bloggers are the ones, IMO, who need to be listened to.
So, I have a proposal.
I want to turn what is currently a blog called Layered Byte into an aggregator that aggregates the latest opinions from personal blogs based off of what Techmeme deems important at that time. Like I said, Techmeme is good at what it does, and it makes no sense for us to not use them as the basis for the personal blog articles we should highlight on this new aggregator.
Now, the real question, why am I telling you this?
Because I know a lot of people reading this right now write on their own blog, and many of them write great posts on the latest hot topics that don't get the attention they deserve. The idea right now is still in the incubation stage, but I am very dead set on getting the ball rolling, and I need suggestions from personal bloggers on what they would like to see. Also, if any of the Techmeme peeps want to chime in, feel free, I know two of you out there occasionally stop by :D
So take the time to email me your thoughts (holdenpage@gmail.com) or comment. I would love to hear them before I get started.
P.S. I know that Techmeme has a discussion link. If I am going to be blunt, it blows. I have been on the discussion end of things NUMEROUS times, traffic is low and your name is not put out there at all, especially when your swimming in the sea of other discussions on a particularly important/controversial piece of breaking news.
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