Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
We read Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera's post today about the introduction of human editors to the automated news aggregator. Gabe lays out his reasons. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington wonders if it will spoil the system. TechCrunch is the single most popular...
Susan Mernits (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
If you were looking for proof us blase types in web 2.0 land get jaded with technology way too fast, the recent article in the Guardian UK by Jack Schofield about the joys of techmeme, memeorandum and the other time and link-based aggregators created by Gabe Rivera might be one of the documents to consider. Schofield says "Memeorandum is embarrassingly better than Google News," but the...
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, well, well — maybe there’s a place for human beings in the new media landscape after all. Who would have guessed? The revelation comes courtesy of Gabe Rivera, the creator and programming genius behind a series of news aggregation sites including Memeorandum, Ballbug and Techmeme. He has just admitted that the algorithms he uses [...]
CREATT Interactive Group (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Gabe Rivera, the Source
Startup Meme (Free subscription) | yesterday
Almost every has had some sort of complains against TechMeme , for its auto generated news. But it appears Gabe Rivera has at last realized that automated generation isn’t working in favor of the service and needs some manual work out. Gabe stated : Only an algorithm would feature news about Anna Nicole Smith’s hospitalization after she’s already been declared dead, as our automated...
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Gabe Rivera has announced that Techmeme will be getting a little more “explicit” in the human-editing that takes place on the site. (For those who don’t follow these things — i.e., the vast majority of the world’s population — I highly recommend skipping this post, unless it’s late at night and you’re seeking relief from [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
3+ year old TechMeme , an automated news site that shows breaking news clustered by topic, has always generated "headlines" by analyzing how news sites link to each other. If a lot of sites start linking to something unique, TechMeme guesses it's news. That isn't working , says founder Gabe Rivera today in a blog post: "Only an algorithm would feature news about Anna Nicole Smith's hospitalization...
bub.blicio.us (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
by Brian Solis Gabe Rivera announced that TechMeme will complement its advanced news aggregation algorithms with a human touch. Last month, Megan McCarthy, formerly of ValleyWag and Wired, joined the team to fill the “news maestro” role. Credit: Brian Solis on flickr The benefit? The news will just get faster and more interesting. Obsolete stories will be eliminated sooner [...]
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Freelance tech writer Megan McCarthy just landed one of the coolest jobs on the new web, editing semi-automated news aggregator Techmeme . The hire was made last month but just announced today in a blog post by site founder Gabe Rivera. McCarthy's new job is really interesting in a number of ways. Rivera says with her addition "it really feels like the age of the news cyborg has...
The Bivings Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
... her being dead, shows the just one of the kind of problems automation can bring. Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera explained the gist of the problem in a blog post yesterday : Any competent developer who tries to automate the selection of news headlines will inevitably discover that this approach always comes up a bit short. Automation does indeed bring a lot to the table — humans can’t...
Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
By Cernig It's about time Gabe Rivera got some mainstream notice and credit for the excellent job he's done with his memeorandum aggregator, which has become a favorite resource for bloggers from A to D lists. Today, the UK's Guardian...
Mousetrap Technology - Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the best technology news aggregator websites has just become a cyborg. Techmeme , which is followed hourly by many in the technology community in the US and elsewhere (including me), has hired a human to work alongside its algorithms to rank and cluster breaking news items. The site's founder Gabe Rivera revealed in a blog that he had hired Megan McCarthy, formerly of tech industry...
Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interesting. I wonder just what this says, and I don’t have the brain cells to figure it out at the moment. Techmeme which is a terrific aggregator of tech news has been using an algorithm to assemble the headlines and then the other posts that dangle down from that. Well now Gabe Rivera is adding a human touch, or as he explains it on the Techmeme blog , a human scapegoat. Megan McCarthy...
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | yesterday
... quickly, while big ones generate lots of comment and dominate the page for hours. The developer, Gabe Rivera, says it’s all done in software. He provides a list of publications as “seeds,” but the software still finds stories on sites he’s never heard of. It’s just a question of following links, and then trying to assess the contents. The algorithms are, obviously, secret. Google...
The Garlic (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
You want to know who's running circles around Google News ? Memeorandum . So say The Guardian, in a article today, throwing some well-deserved kudos at Memeorandum. Breaking news Memeorandum-style ...Where it competes, Gabe Rivera's news aggregator gets the stories faster than Google News If you want to know what's happening in the world, then Memorandum will tell you – at least in a...
