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gzino — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:46:12 -0000

Great idea. A delicious or technorati tag syntax could help too. In addition to your notes above, that has been the other issue with techmeme - it is the blog itself that has the juice, not the individual blog post, so we see dull posts from powerful blogs and miss the juicy posts from the rest of the world. And in this case there are plenty of blogs that don't focus on products but do occasionally have great product posts. Hard problem to solve but if you're manually reviewing feeds anyways than perhaps encouraging blogs to submit product-oriented posts via a tag syntax that you can parse somewhere would be a starting point.

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dave — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:11:44 -0000

Great review on ReadWriteWeb!

http://www.readwriteweb.com...

Thanks!!!

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skipdodson — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:37:07 -0000

Great job Dave. I find both NewsJunk and Tech.NewsJunk very useful. Thanks for sharing them with us.

Regards,

Skip

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gregorylent — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:07:48 -0000

a column for tech devices we would LIKE TO SEE

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James Prudente — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:21:36 -0000

So awesome Dave! You obviously understand what makes a good mobile news reader, lots of content loaded quick and nicely rendered. Works great on my BB Curve. One thing that would be even better if the click through to story goes to a mobile friendly rendered version of the article like http://newsgangbeta.tagrega.... Do that and I'll never visit http://techmeme.com/mini again ;)

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Joe Lazarus — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:21:56 -0000

Got it, thanks for the clarification. One feature I would like is an option to get a feed of the full posts as opposed to just title and snippet. It would look something like this...

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipe...

That's just a rough example that I threw together quickly. It's missing some of your posts because of the way I hacked it together, but I think you get the idea. I want to be able to subscribe to Tech NewsJunk in Google Reader and see as much of the article as the source includes in their feed so I don't have to click through each link, but can just scan the full posts in Reader.

Looks promising... nice work.

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NotDave — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:06:27 -0000

meh.

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ampressman — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:21:32 -0000

Dave, on my blog (http://gravitationalpull.ne..., about half of the posts are potentially of interest for techjunk, IMHO. Is there a mechanism to ping or message techjunk for posts potentially worth adding to the feed? Or would you take my feed and a human being could add posts of interest? Thanks from all the small-scale bloggers out here in the sticks.

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Will Cate — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:38:54 -0000

I love it! I love the original newsjunk also. Great work, Mr. Winer....

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kosso — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:26:18 -0000

good stuff, Dave. ;)
Is there a search for the site too? That would be good.

Also, do we get to know 'who' is choosing/ 'favouring' these stories? (As I see you mentioned that below)

If you want to know about a great product, pre-funding etc - just drop me a line :D hehe. j/k

cheeers

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Michael P — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:47:08 -0000

I am not able to figure it out what special is techjunk offering ? I would prefer techmeme.com or smashingfeeds.com

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Maxim Shevertalov — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:32:41 -0000

Thanks for a great site. I've started Graphsy on Monday and have no real idea how to promote it or let people know it exists. I have no funding and no experience with this stuff at all so if posting a link here is inappropriate I'm sorry. I'd love to get feedback from people using the site, it's graph drawing inside a browser. You can find it at www.graphsy.com and a blog I stated to track development at blog.graphsy.com. Again if this is rude I'm really sorry, any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Hopefully this is something new that you haven't seen before.

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bobbywhitney — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:27:01 -0000

Thanks so much for doing this.

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dave — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:19:24 -0000

Gotcha. We may do that.

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dave — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:19:10 -0000

There's judgment involved, it's not wisdom of the crowds, a small number of people including myself are reviewing stuff and choosing stories to push out. The articles aren't submitted, we're watching a lot of feeds.

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dave — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:17:59 -0000

That's an old page -- it was called TechWheat at one point (internally) I should take that page down, the real one, the one that's maintained is here: http://tech.newsjunk.com/co...

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dave — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:16:27 -0000

Thanks for the pointer to Louis.

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calvinNhobbes — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:28:22 -0000

I agree with you. Better etiquette, if you want to keep track of clicks, would be to follow the example of many other sites and include the target URL, or use Javascript to show the actual URL in the status bar (Google does this). The first method is simpler, though. It could actually be as easy as just adding the target URL as a parameter -- this already works.

e.g. http://x.techwheat.com/1H?h...

Then just drop the parameter when you post to Twitter, etc.

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Edwin Khodabakchian — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:06:48 -0000

Great initiative Dave. I would definitely add Louis Gray to the ReadWiriteWeb, VentureBeat and Webware list: both because of the relationship he build with the entrepreneurs to try to get fresh information as well as the details he puts in his reviews.

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Ken Hudak — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:38:41 -0000

What is TechWheat? Is that your site too Dave?

I really, really, like the looks of http://techwheat.com/counts... . I don't know what that screen is, but I like it better than PopURLs actually.

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Yakov — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:37:11 -0000

Dave,

Is there an OPML list of feeds that it is based on?

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Joe Lazarus — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:25:35 -0000

Can you explain a little more about how the stories are selected? Is this a list of articles that you personally find interesting? Is it based on some sort of wisdom of crowds? Are they articles that people submit to you? I like to have a sense of the editorial process for the news sites I use.

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DrWhitt — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:20:37 -0000

Hmmm... I guess that the domain is in the square brackets, e.g., [LifeHacker]. I guess it's just my common, peculiar way of browsing where I always look at the URL in my browser's status bar before clicking. I've been bitten by a tinyurl .com that redirected to a "bad place" in the past (not due to the service but, rather, due to the unscrupulous person who posted the link) and suppose I spoke too quickly - but I, for one, would still feel better if I could do that as opposed depending on the redirect via techwheat.com to always be trustworthy. Again, maybe I'm being over-paranoid.

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DrWhitt — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:10:18 -0000

This is nice, Dave! I have to say, though, that I'm a little worried^H^H^H^H^H^H^H paranoid about the use of obscured URLs the to source article, e.g., http://x.techwheat.com/1H. Having visibility of the actual URL seems safer for folks like me that first look to see that the domain isn't a "bad place" before actually clicking and being rather blindly redirected to the ultimate location. What do you think?

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susan mernit — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:07:03 -0000

thrilled there is a mobile version; going to add to my links--congrats!