Tag Archives: memetracking

Techmeme receives a love letter from the New York Times

Posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 by Rex Hammock

I’ve tried many times over the years to kick my habit of checking in numerous times a day to see what’s on Techmeme. I’ve always failed. Because I was an early fan of Gabe Rivera and his approach to aggregating … Continue reading →

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Thanks, Gabe, there goes another chunk of my day

Posted on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Rex Hammock

Gabe Rivera, the creator of the tech-news tracking service Techmeme, has launched another channel on his platform of human-influenced, news-trend sniffing algorithms. To technology, politics (Memorandum), celebrity gossip (WeSmirch) and baseball (BallBug), Gabe has now added a meme-tracking service that … Continue reading →

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Talketh, Blogeth and Tweeteth like Shakespeare Day

Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 by Rex Hammock

Have your heard that today is Talk Like Shakespeare Day? You know those goofy Internet memes, those inside jokes or a new slang word or anything-about-Susan-Boyle that spreads around the web so quickly that everyone has heard about it before … Continue reading →

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In 2009, why not learn how to hack your own info-flow

Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 by Rex Hammock

(credit: flickr.com/timkin) I know how obsessed (at Hammock, we call it “passionate“) those trying to keep up with the latest geek news can be. Boy, do I know. But if you’re going be obsessed with tech news, you have no … Continue reading →

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Techmeme’s algorithm now ‘officially’ includes an elf

Posted on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 by Rex Hammock

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 … Continue reading →

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