http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/03/on-memeo/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:32:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/03/on-memeo/comment-page-1/#comment-1152 robhyndman.com Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:16:09 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/03/on-memeo/#comment-1152 [...] But there have been exceptions. In editing, the memetrackers, like the memeorandum twins, megite, chuquet and reddit, have, in a model example of rapid Darwinian adaptation, been evolving into quite sophisticated quasi-editorial tools, and increasingly I’m realizing that my early skepticism was … well, premature (mea culpa, btw). [...] [...] But there have been exceptions. In editing, the memetrackers, like the memeorandum twins, megite, chuquet and reddit, have, in a model example of rapid Darwinian adaptation, been evolving into quite sophisticated quasi-editorial tools, and increasingly I’m realizing that my early skepticism was … well, premature (mea culpa, btw). [...]

]]> http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/03/on-memeo/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Mark Federman Sun, 05 Feb 2006 15:14:26 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/03/on-memeo/#comment-1051 Stewe Boyd's conversation index has the right idea, but misses on implementation. The blogosphere itself is the conversation; Technorati references would be a better indication of the degree of conversation in the general case. However, this still promotes a hierarchical view of "which blog is on top today?" that goes against the basic effects of ubiquitous connectivity and pervasive proximity, and ignores the influence and intrinsic power of "the long tail" and the main influence of the blogosphere: keeping an issue alive until it is noticed by the conventional mass media. Stewe Boyd’s conversation index has the right idea, but misses on implementation. The blogosphere itself is the conversation; Technorati references would be a better indication of the degree of conversation in the general case. However, this still promotes a hierarchical view of “which blog is on top today?” that goes against the basic effects of ubiquitous connectivity and pervasive proximity, and ignores the influence and intrinsic power of “the long tail” and the main influence of the blogosphere: keeping an issue alive until it is noticed by the conventional mass media.

]]> http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/03/on-memeo/comment-page-1/#comment-1048 Michael Whitney Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:25:11 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/03/on-memeo/#comment-1048 My bet is that as more people embrace rss, and subscribe to feeds memeorandum will begin to place ads in the feeds. They will figure out how to track which stories you read, and which ones you don't, and place ads that are related to stories you are interested in. As far as the site itself goes they might place significant amounts of google ads, or go with a firm like adbrite and sell to very high bidders. Advertising is definately the way they are going to have to make money. It couldn't hurt to try and sell the users some shirts either. My bet is that as more people embrace rss, and subscribe to feeds memeorandum will begin to place ads in the feeds. They will figure out how to track which stories you read, and which ones you don’t, and place ads that are related to stories you are interested in. As far as the site itself goes they might place significant amounts of google ads, or go with a firm like adbrite and sell to very high bidders. Advertising is definately the way they are going to have to make money. It couldn’t hurt to try and sell the users some shirts either.

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