Comments on: Techmeme Threatens Technorati?

By: David Russell

David Russell — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:14:10 +0000

I don’t think the Techmeme leaderboard has any real prospect of threatening Technorati. The former is concerned with pissing contests between mainstream media websites, while the latter is a blog aggregator.

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Real bloggers don’t bathe. : Echoreply — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:46:45 +0000

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By: Ihad

Ihad — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:02:44 +0000

See Rob and Tim, we think alike and I bet a lot of bloggers out there think the same way. Some feel pressured to make accounts anywhere that may increase their exposure. I always say “build it and they will come”. They might be few but they care and they will come again. Or so we hope. I am just writing movie reviews so my exposure is minimal, esp. with metacritic, joblo, rottentomatoes and whatnot, still I have a few readers and some of them I know others I don’t. Word of mouth is what gets me “readers” not technorati, nor techblabla.

Real blogs don’t run ads, eh?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:05:17 +0000

A multi-author blog is something like Slashdot. When I read a blog (faithfully), I read the blog because I enjoy the writing style of a single author. There are millions of things to click on, I need to narrow down the list if I hope to find something to read that is worth reading. I count on quite a few bloggers to maintain their style and quality, they do.

Technorati (and others) have made their money. At some point, especially when dealing with ‘blogging’ as an industry you must realize that you have made whatever your going to make.

I don’t use my Technorati account, nor do I offer submission links to other social bookmarks, my readers syndicate my stuff via word of mouth, this is as it should be.

I simply refuse to participate in a popularity contest, period.

By: SL Lindens

SL Lindens — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:43:55 +0000

with their system.. I don’t think a lot of bloggers will bite their service.

By: Mosey

Mosey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:30:55 +0000

I’ve never heard of Techmeme *dodges stones* but as it seems to be a ‘tech news’ assimilator, I’m not sure if it really threatens Technorati, since I think the latter has actually expanded its horizons.

By: Rob Scott

Rob Scott — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:59:38 +0000

I’m also of the view that multi-author blogs are not blogs at all.

And as for these ’services’ which crop up from time to time in order to distribute other people’s content, then fine, go for your lives. However, these sites are here to make money, by rejigging content produced by others - at the end of the day, they make money re-publishing what WE (as bloggers) are saying, and placing it into a list. It has been done before, almost, now, to death.

The focus, for me, will remain on increasing subscribers to my blogs - whether technorati or anyone else chooses to place me in a “this is the best” list or not does not bother me - what does, though, is how around 50 different websites republish a snippet of my content - each time I make a new post - and run ads next to it. To whom did I give permission to do that?

By: Lino

Lino — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:28:22 +0000

I think that are two diferents kind of listing, Because of that I do not believe tha Techmemne hit Technorati nor that is a threaten for.

By: Ihad

Ihad — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:51:20 +0000

Single author blogs neither need Technorati nor Techmeme, Techwewe, Techyouyou, Techsheshe, Techhehe or Techitit… did I forget something? Tech$$$$ maybe?

And what are multi-author blogs really? They do retain some blog character but are they still blogs? What is a blog for you? Is it a personal log of one person writing about “x” or “x” and “y” or even “z”? Wikipedia has the answer of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

Other than that, well put Mark.

By: Chuck Adkins

Chuck Adkins — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:29:21 +0000

I am here to tell you, that Gabe Rivera is very, very, biased. I use Gabe’s service “memeorandum, which is the sister site of TechMeme. I have been, in the past dropped from his MeMe listing service. Because, for whatever reason, he considers my Political Blog, not to be “Mainstream” enough, personally, I believe that mentality promotes and fosters a mentality of Elitism and “I’m better than you”. Truth is, there’s some damn good blogs out there, that are not listed on Gabe’s service, and I think it’s wrong of Gabe to dupe people into believing his bullshit line of there’s no bias, because there is, and I’ve seen, as well as a number of other bloggers.

MeMeorandum is a biased service that judges you on your content and if it doesn’t meet Gabe’s bogus standard’s you get dropped from his list.

Someone who totally unbiased and Non-Judgmental about bloggers. Should start a service. In the same type for format as Gabe’s. Because it’s quite obvious to me and many other bloggers, who put a alot of time and effort into our writing, that if Gabe likes your blog, you stay on his list, if he doesn’t, you’re dropped, just like I was today.

-Chuck Adkins
Owner
http://thepopulistblog.com