Two videos for a slow Sunday afternoon
6 January 2008
Filed under Blogging, Fun, Technology
You read TechMeme, right? For those who don’t, it’s a completely automated site that pulls, organizes and displays the hottest news from blogs at any given moment. It changes continuously, 24/7 in response the the “buzziest” news of the second. Amit Pagarwal at Digital Inspiration made a pretty cool 50 hour time lapsed visualization (down to 50 seconds) of the evolution of the TechMeme home page:
And if you’re familiar with the Scoble/Facebook thing (as well as that stupid video made about Britney by Chris Cocker), this might be a little entertaining:
14 Comments
#1. Justin Williams posted this 9 months, 1 week ago.
I just can’t read TechMeme. It’s way too much of an industry insider circle jerk for my tastes.
#2. Clint Ecker posted this 9 months, 1 week ago.
I mostly agree Justin. I mostly monitor it to see if Ars stuff makes it up there and for the occasional dust up on big stuff.
It currently resides in my equivalent of an “infoglut” folder in my reader. It used to be a lot cooler than it is now ;(