Louis Gray on Techmeme’s leaderboard
Louis Gray provides great analysis about Techmeme’s leaderboard, which tracks which sites have the most weight in providing news within Techmeme’s ever evolving publishing system.
Says Louis: “With good content, and good linkage from others, reaching TechMeme is available to anyone. While Gabe’s algorithms are a well-kept secret, it’s unquestioned that the data is driven mathematically, and doesn’t smack of human intervention to push one site’s stories over another.”
I agree. I head to Techmeme at least several times a day as it seems to be one of the best places on the Internet to get the most relevant, interesting, and important web and tech news stories – and, importantly, the evolving conversations around them. And I’ve never gotten a sense that founder Gabe Rivera or anyone else is purposefully tilting the rankings one way or the other.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Glad you liked the post. I had a more ambitious plan to copy all the data into Excel, show how many unique sites had been listed, divide media from traditional bloggers, etc… but then I realized I have a real day job, need to sleep on occasion, and instead focused on the Top 10. Hopefully not too many people felt short changed.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:26 pm
That sounds like great grist for another post if you’re of a mind and, no, I certainly didn’t feel short-changed at all!
Early on I had a notion that it would be cool to have a separate site from techmeme that focused solely on blog-driven or “new media” stories but don’t feel that way anymore. The combo that techmeme brings is pretty great and balanced between hard core tech, Internet, tech biz, and overarching media stories.
Overall, looking at the culture that Techmeme represents and in some ways supports is fascinating.