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    A Utility I Want An Open Letter to Six Apart

    Tech.Meme is Irrelevant

    I don't know about everyone else out there, but I have been less than impressed with Tech.Meme lately.  When it first started (as Tech.Memeorandum) it featured posts and memes that were very interesting, timely, and actually meant something to me.  As time goes on, Techmeme however, I've noticed that the original "memes" (ideas) have disappeared and it's basically turned into a technology industry news magazine.  I still find the occasional nugget of interesting blogging going on there, but for the most part it feels like CNBC for the Web.

    Let's take a quick look at what's going on there right now:  there are a TON of posts about Dell starting a corporate blog (yawn), MySpace is the most popular site on the Internet (didn't see that coming from a mile away), Google Maps has an updated zoom feature (stop the presses!), Microsoft plans to continue it's CRM line of products (ok), and Time Warner is considering offering free AOL service to some of its customers (I'll be sure to alert the one person I know who uses it).

    This is news?  These are IDEAS????  This is not the blogosphere, this is a new avenue for press releases and a holy grail for link mongers.  Do we really need another technology news site?  I think Wired, Digg, and Slashdot do a swell job of that.  Or has blog content really become this blase?  Is there anywhere I can go to see what people with ORIGINAL ideas are writing about?

    July 12, 2006 |

    A Utility I Want An Open Letter to Six Apart

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