That was quick. On Sunday, I pointed to Gabe Rivera’s self-deprecating comments about the service he founded, and on Monday the new version is out, in two flavors, a Tech Web and a cleaner view of the original Politics/News version.
It’s a news page for blogs. It tells you what bloggers find important. Right now.
I remain to be convinced. The tech page looks promising, but my first reaction to the political page is that it’s worse than before.
More than anything, what this service needs is a bozo filter. There are many sources in both tech and political news that I consider to be just noise. Some are routinely inaccurate, others add nothing of value to the conversation. Gabe, give me a way to filter these people out.
Now let’s see if this comment makes it into tech.memeorandum.
Update: Richard MacManus has this concise description:
How it works: the more people that link to a blog post, the bigger the headline. The biggest and most recent headlines are at the top of the page, but move down as newer popular stories emerge to take their place. Below the original source of each story are links to other bloggers who have linked to it. But the beauty of it is, only posts with a decent amount of writing in them make the memeorandum page. A simple link and a sentence won’t do.
All in all, it’s like a hybrid of populicio.us and the New York Times!
It’s almost entirely automated too, which amazed me when I found out – because the quality of the posts and stories that it uncovers is top notch. As is the connecting together of all relevant links, which Gabe has an excellent phrase for: “relate the conversation”. I’ve been using this new version of memeorandum as my prime source of breaking blog news for the past couple of months. It’s so quick to scan and find out what’s hot in the tech blogosphere.
The link to this piece came, ironically, through tech.memeorandum.
Ed Bott 