DISQUS

Brian Sullivan · 2 years ago

I guess #2 is a secret? ;-)

anon · 2 years ago

tinyurl is down

John Furrier · 2 years ago

This is what I posted on Fred's comments: "great post Fred. sites like Techcrunch don't qualify as a blog any more ..it's a webzine with trackbacks and comments. Techmeme is great but like it's early days it isn't a conversation anymore... it's writers working hard to bump their way to the top of the noice mountain... i would like to see the 'real' conversations. The NYTimes and CNet don't have conversations - they may start them but they don't participate. What I have always like about bloggers is their unique voice and the participation... the best of the bloggers talk with their audience ..."

Dave: a key point in Fred's post is the fact that TC et al hire a "team" of bloggers. I agree with you this isn't blogging. It's a media business.

I will start blogging again but I will never hire a team like TC and GigaOm - why? the writers to work with are already out there - they are bloggers themselves - the "team" consists of all bloggers... Mark Evans is right we need to celebrate the individual blogger...

Techmeme is turning into a "noice mountain"... the content developers are turning out "noice" because "noice" is rewarded. Yell the loudest and you'll climb on the techmeme leaderboard.

We need more signal less noice..

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

Fun, John, that's exactly why I do my link blog. http://www.google.com/reader/shared/14480565058...

John Furrier · 2 years ago

you are always protyping the future Robert.. you are an individual blogger who works like a media company yet you don't pay for the content ...it's just there..you're link blog is a media company :-) keep on blogging

fredwilson · 2 years ago

well said Dave

maybe i'll start visting share my opml instead of techmeme

do you do that?

fred

dave · 2 years ago

Nope. Not sure what you mean by that -- but I have to admit to neglecting SYO. Need to find a couple of PHP programmers. :-)

AndrewBurton · 2 years ago

So roll your own TinyUrl. Make it scripting.com/u/?0001 or something. I wrote the (dirt simple, very ugly) PHP code behind brrdd.com in an hour, and it does what TinyUrl does without being reliant on them.

Todd Cochrane · 2 years ago

Dave

Have you thought about releasing your tiny url code? I would not mind running my own as well.

Todd

dave · 2 years ago

I think I'll leave that to younger programmers with more ambition and energy.

Joe Lazarus · 2 years ago

Todd, check out Shorty...

http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2006/0824_a...

AndrewBurton · 2 years ago

I've cobbled together a simple, PHP/MySQL system for shortening URL's. People are welcome to it if they like: http://profnano.org/code/brrdd.zip

pierre guillaume wielezynski · 2 years ago

people can say whatever they want about you winer, you are one consistent, faithful, uncompromising guy. and that's great. dont stop.

Mr. Gunn · 2 years ago

Thanks so much for saying this. The scientific community is discussing how to get persistent citations in published journal articles, and WebCite was mentioned. It's a central service that proposes to be a mirror of all hyper-linked content from publications, but thankfully many people mentioned that it's a central point of failure.

Keep it up, man!

Michael Markman · 2 years ago

Your point about Techmeme attracting "coral reefs" of blogs is well-taken. But citing the rush to comment on the Steven Levy piece on Kindle is, IMHO, not the best illustration of the phenom. "Amazon Reinvents the Book" is a big, disruptive claim that many people want to weigh in on. That's something that was going to attract a lot of commentary storm regardless of Techmeme rankings.

Rex Hammock · 2 years ago

This is what I get for going off-line for a couple of days. Dave mentions me and I'm not here to read it. ; ) Thanks.

vrypan · 1 year ago

Dave, please have a look to something I developed to solve the centralization problem of services like tinyurl.

http://www.urlb.org/myborg/

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