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I loved the post, but I think that Dvorak might be getting a bum rap. He may indeed write the things he does in order to generate buzz, but I also find a lot of his "diatribes" to be on target. I admit, I'm a fan and have been since the 80's. I am an old guy in this IT world now since I can remember back when ;-)
But I still enjoy John's writings. And remember that he started all this "back in the day" pre Internet.
My opinions do not reflect my wife's
bill
Consider using the Memeorandum javascript badge as a way to read the site instead of RSS. I have it on my site (right under the picture) and use it as a way to see "what's buzzing" without getting caught up in the details and flack.
Steve
Ah, Grasshopper, you have learned the secret of Talk Radio. If you make half your audience Mad As Hell while the other half wear a self-congratulatory Ego-Boosting Smirk, then they'll all tune in tomorrow.
An awful lot of blogs -- especially political blogs -- draw traffic this way. Their comment sections have all the attributes of a bar fight. Maybe we ought to christen them "Talks Blogs".
'Nuff said
1) Megite auto discovers new blogs (not just A-list)
2) Megite doesn't require link analysis to rank good news
3) Megite can be customized based on your own OPML file (or your feeds).
Er, except for you this week. Your memeorandum-free diet should make for an interesting experiment!
BTW, yeah, memeorandum really transforms into something entirely different on the weekends. It's like downtown after hours, a little stranger, a little creepier.
In Soviet Russia, Memeorandum won't unsubscribe from YOU! :-)
RE memetrackers on the weekend. I've noticed this too. There's much less traffic on the weekends to my results become a bit.... anemic.
Onward....
Kevin
If this is the only place you ever get your news then you probably don't have your calendar blocked off enough. Personally, I don't know if I would totally ignore anything Robert.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_com...
I'm pretty sure that the blogsphere will drown in its own noise, just like CB radio of the 70s did, and somewhat more recently Usenet. The arena is much larger, because there's more people with access to it. Bets on how long before blogs are irrelevant?
Maybe we'll be lucky and develop filters to get the noise-to-signal ratio down to a bearable level. Right after that effective spam filter, yeah.
Why do you have to be all-or-nothing memeorandum or not?
Read your obscure and esoteric blogs. Also spend a few minutes scanning through memeorandum to see what the current buzz is about.
What is your problem?
He makes a fair point though. Hey, GMan, please link to a different site, they may think you're me.
I have always posted here that I don't like memorandum because it does not cover the intrests that I am intrested. I am politically conservative and find that a lot of the blogs I'm interested do not show up on memorandum or are on there way too late for me to really care, I've already read the blog story. I've struggled between memorandum, bloglines and agrekator in Kontact when I'm on the linux partition.
I guess who determines what is "hot" on memorandum? Because the "discussion" that occurs there is often not what I'm intrested in.
After all this, claim the high moral ground.
I do spend a lot of time on my feeds. But then that's cause I want to be smarter.
You're on the money that usefulness is missing in the whole meme "sphere". The idea of a meme is good. The idea of finding a meme of interest to you today (relevance) is hard. The majority of meme sites are just coughing up the newest news. And quite often the very best posts on a subject (a meme) are not the newest ones. So IMO new /= relevant. Launrence Timms (Chuquet) and I (reBlogger) are initiating a conversation along those lines here:
http://reblogger.wordpress.com/2006/03/03/memes...
Opinions and thoughts are welcome.
Thanks,
Mark.
Welcome back to being who you are
Seriously Robert - you do make a good point on this. For me its tedious to dredge through Memeorandum to find interesting articles. Gabe may also be correct about the site on weekends. I've found good days and bad days for reading t.m., but mostly its frustrating to find anything relevent or intellegent to read.
The best new blogs I've found have been linked off of blogs that I read regularly - I've yet to find a new blog off t.m. that I return to.
-Rick
Welcome back!!
Kevin: I'm getting more and more impressed by TailRank. It still brings me too much stuff too, but one of you will hit on the magic combination. I can't wait.
Some how trackback does not work.
If s**t == shit, the surely s**t is just as rude?
monk.e.boy
Hmmmm...
...I didn't even know it was there until I saw it appear in my bloglines...in your post and Richard's.
Although keeping the meme as an RSS feed can still make sense.
Enjoy the return of sernedipity
regards Al
But what's been zapping my time more than anything these days are my Digg feeds. With Digg feeds I can customize by subject, person, etc. and get generally speaking interesting stories (most people try to submit stuff that will get dugg). Because it's focused on feeds I've set up (search terms of interest) it's focus is great. It's much broader than the authorities who get on Memeorandum and helps me find interesting new bloggers and people all the time.
I think there is a place for all three though, my Memeorandum reading, RSS and Digg searches. But in the end we all only have so much time and it's a zero sum game to some degree.
My problem with all of my blogs that I track is that so often they post articles I'm not interested in. I still think someone needs to come up with RSS feeds for search terms in predefined authority filters.
Memeorandum suffers from the same affliction that all peer ranking sites do. It is the very samething that makes them popular. Its the people who read them. Its not that they are bad, but its always the same people and as someone pointed out above, popular does not mean interesting or noteworthy. By using sites like Memeorandum, Digg, and the like; we’ve given up a fair amount of control for the convenience and automatic filtering of what we see.
As far as the snarking goes, people will be people. No matter what the medium is, if it is open to the public to participate it will happen, especially with the anonymity of the net. Just look at the history: BBS’s, Usenet, then websites and forums, now blogs. They all suffered from snarking. Why should a peer aggregator/ranking site that culls from these sources be any different? A desktop or web personal aggregator isn’t going to be much different as the sources are the same. The only difference is that you can remove a feed from your radar if it gets too noisy for you.
So my question to you Robert isn’t should you sign off or use a personal aggregator, but wouldn’t something like Feed Demon’s watches be more suitable?
And if you read Fit the First, then the first two verses might aptly describe Memeorandum!
Maybe because I am not a Tech guy, I usually read varied blogs on a number of topics.
I find ideas and inspiration for my business in many places including the following: Coudal, Learned on Women, Is my blog Burning, Chocolate & Zucchini, Knowledge at Wharton to name a few.
I like the diversity.
While visiting the SEOS in New York last week, a number of companies in the Expo bored me by repeatedly bringing up Google rather than telling me how special they were.
Serge
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The posts you linked are all interesting; any chance you'd share your RSS subs (or part of them) with the unwashed masses who also like to feel smarter?
;)
You need help! You really seriously need help.
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Get some help Robert! Step away from the computer and find a treatment program where you can return to sanity. Take all the time you need. We will be here when you get back.
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