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Shelley Powers writes today about Memeorandum:

Fourth, rank matters more than content. Recently Danny Ayers started a conversation about what other options do we see for a semantic web. He got several responses — not an avalance, but respectable. However, Danny’s post and the cross-blog discussion didn’t show on tech.memeorandum.com. What did show was a post by David Weinberger saying how he hadn’t posted in four days.

This is because Memeorandum suffers from the Britney Spears problem. It’s a highschool popularity contest. If you’re popular you get linked to.

This is the central problem that TailRank solves (or is attempting to solve). TailRank is a meme engine that customizes around the user. This way instead of just tech and politics verticals you can have niche verticals like ‘web 2.0′ or ‘fishing’ or whatever. Not only that but we rank blogs that YOU care about not necessarily global rankings.