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Re: Gabe Rivera and Techmeme

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Post by vonnik »

kkotak wrote: post #5

Just realized that I'm commenting on a post about an article about a person who republishes news articles from other sites. Deep.

Every medium has a tendency to create work about itself, the subject its makers understand the best. Hollywood does La la land. Buzzfeed covers Techmeme. Novelists write novels about novelists writing novels: Misery, The Sportswriter, half of Philip Roth, some of Joyce.

Re: Gabe Rivera and Techmeme

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Post by Muuuchem »

I am new to the scene and definitely gonna bookmark Techmeme. So basically, if my understanding from skimming the article is accurate, TM is very similar to HN except that they have a team hand-selecting the articles rather than relying on a vote system?

Re: Gabe Rivera and Techmeme

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Post by Pxl_Buzzard »

Muuuchem wrote: post #12

I am new to the scene and definitely gonna bookmark Techmeme. So basically, if my understanding from skimming the article is accurate, TM is very similar to HN except that they have a team hand-selecting the articles rather than relying on a vote system?

Techmeme mostly has human curation and a little bit of automation, though it is hard to tell from the outside how much that factors in. Human curators also rename article titles to provide a summary of the contents in an attempt to save you a click if you don't want more detailed information.

Re: Gabe Rivera and Techmeme

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Post by rschroed »

Pxl_Buzzard wrote: post #13
Muuuchem wrote: post #12

I am new to the scene and definitely gonna bookmark Techmeme. So basically, if my understanding from skimming the article is accurate, TM is very similar to HN except that they have a team hand-selecting the articles rather than relying on a vote system?

Techmeme mostly has human curation and a little bit of automation, though it is hard to tell from the outside how much that factors in. Human curators also rename article titles to provide a summary of the contents in an attempt to save you a click if you don't want more detailed information.

Isn't the other way around? Mostly algo / automation with a layer or curation? At least that's how I think it used to work, maybe that's changed.

At the very least it seems like the clustering is algorithmic and "most" of the ranking.

Source: Too lazy to look up the 6 year old article that I kinda remember talking about this.

Re: Gabe Rivera and Techmeme

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Post by basch »

Muuuchem wrote: post #12

I am new to the scene and definitely gonna bookmark Techmeme. So basically, if my understanding from skimming the article is accurate, TM is very similar to HN except that they have a team hand-selecting the articles rather than relying on a vote system?

techmeme is like drudgereport. a small team posting hyperlinks to what you should consider most important.

the river is a chronology http://www.techmeme.com/river

Re: Gabe Rivera and Techmeme

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Post by spinchange »

Even though tech is my primary passion, I find I use his Memeorandum site (for political news) way more than I ever used Techmeme. For me, the front page of this site serves my tech news needs better than any other.

EDIT: Didn't mean to be off topic. Put another way, "If you really like Techmeme, don't miss Memeorandum for politics."

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