Wired just released a piece by Ryan Singel entitled Man vs Machine in Newsreader War which is pretty hot (and pushing some serious pages on Tailrank right now). I really like the man vs machine analogy (though I think in the end a hybrid approach will be better).
Great piece and Ryan covers all the bases.
… Tailrank, a San Francisco-based startup founded by Kevin Burton, also relies heavily on smart code to find cool stories — not just from news outlets, but also from tens of thousands of blogs.
Burton, who wrote a news-reading application called NewsMonster and co-founded Rojo, an online news-reading tool, started Tailrank as a way to handle the information overload created by easy access to blogs and media outlets via RSS.
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March 14, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Ah, the old memetrackers vs memediggers debate. As you say, the ultimate implementation will lie somewhere in the middle.
Geez - 3 links in one comment! :)
March 14, 2006 at 4:23 pm
All good Pete. You’re worth it. I like the ‘memediggers’ name :)
Kevin