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TechMeme is brilliant.
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… the technology underlying Techmeme — and sister sites WeSmirch, Memeorandum, and Ballbug — may prove to be the most powerful way to harness the blogosphere's investigative power.
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Over the past decade, I've seen a lot of search tools that were supposed to transform my life. Few of them have. But Techmeme was one of those.
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TechMeme is the blogosphere's daily newspaper, and one of the sites we use most often in seeing how stories develop. Stuff on TechMeme hits the New York Times and other newspapers days later. My father is as addicted to Techmeme's political sister site, Memeorandum, as I am to the technology news area.
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Techmeme &hellip continues to draw me in many times a day because of the quality of the stories or posts and the associated links to other blogs.
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Look no further than memeorandum, the site that aggregates the hottest topics on the Web each day.
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… a good news filter can help you zero in on the news you care about. … Techmeme is among the best of these services.
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WeSmirch.com [is] a solid aggregator of celebrity news.
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Memeorandum is what Google News should've been.
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Amongst Memetrackers, Memeorandum is Money … a simple, easy to comprehend, user experience.
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The easiest way to follow this world is via a useful blog-tracking service called tech.memeorandum.
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Pajama people … you'll never do it as quickly or usefully as Memeorandum, anyway.
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Rivera may very well have created the algo which will, with the right support, do for news and blogs what Google did for search.
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Like Scoble, I find it's changed the way I think about blogging. Not many of these tech gadgets do that.
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I quickly became addicted to checking the site, often multiple times a day, to see what kind of buzz it was picking up in the tech world.
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DC Techmeme/memeorandum lunch this Sunday

Wednesday, June 7, 2006 3:28PM ET Permalink

If you're a blogger, journalist, and/or regular reader in the Washington DC area this weekend, please join me for a very informal lunch Sunday 1PM at the Urban Bar-B-Que in Rockville (map). I'm hoping we can achieve a happy mix of both memeorandum-reading wonkish geeks and Techmeme-reading computer geeks.

About the Urban Bar-B-Que: It's good and inexpensive. Getting everyone fed should involve minimal fuss since ordering and pickup are self-serve (you order, they call your number). And politicos from opposite sides of the aisle can rest assured that the venue is both a little bit country (B-B-Que!), and a little bit rock-and-roll (Urban!).

Interested? Please leave a note here.

Update 6/12: Thanks to all who came out and to Cynthia Brumfield who blogged it first. I hoped to post a bunch of photos to Flickr today, but the photographer and his camera are now on a flight to Israel! Fortunately, Clarence Wooten took a couple of photos and I've copied them here.