epic fail - Stephen Jones

I am not going to blame techmeme directly, but news aggregators have this problem in general with "breaking" news. It is not something that is solved easily. - Rob Diana

And I also noticed that mashable rarely gets a top story on TechMeme now. Not sure why. - Rob Diana

Oh, but look! Someone finally cares about Dell! Maybe it's just slow and tired? - Cyndy

Cyndy, or maybe it was written about on the list of "in" sites :-) - Duncan Riley

There are "in" sites? Who knew? ;) - Cyndy

another hour, still not on Techmeme. There are pages upon pages on GBlogsearch talking about this now. It is THE story, and yet, unless it comes from god, no play - Duncan Riley

Weird. The link didn't work for me. Went to the blog but message said item was gone. *shrug* - Cindy from fftogo

Thanks for the heads up on this, Duncan. - Warner Crocker

Echoing @Warner Crocker sentiments: thank you, Duncan. Gave you credit in post here: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/2008080... EDIT: there are a couple different fixes, BTW, for people who want to keep the site meter tracking, but don't want the IE7 error. Also an IE7 hack to view sites that haven't fixed the tracking code yet. - TDavid

This problem could be solved with software Duncan, identify a small group of editors who can vote up a story to put it on the home page of some (new) news site. It would be no better or worse than TechMeme, which does appear to have a similar editorial process. As you point out, just publishing a story on TechCrunch is enough to move it to the top on TM. So that's Coke, start Pepesi. - Dave Winer

BTW, it's the easiest way to get TC/M to change -- people listen to their competitors much more carefully than they listen to their friends. - Dave Winer

The story is on Techmeme now, Duncan: http://www.techmeme.com/080802... - TDavid

Top of Techmeme now. - Mike Doeff

Duncan as Marc Canter would say prior to a disagreement..:Duncan I love you man but.. I think that you're wrong on this one.. it's not Gabe's responsibility to build your community. That's your job. It's unfair to Gabe to say he's letting down his community because you can't get linkage. Gabe has never tried to be like Google news. That being said masterful linkbait..kudos on linkbait; wrong on Techmeme - John Furrier

Whether someone is manually inserting stories into Techmeme or doing so algorithmically, not everyone is going to be satisfied with the filtered/prioritized list results. I do want to point out that Dave's vote/up down news listing service could also be a feed into Techmeme and it might help with some ranking rather than just something that replaces it. I see services like this potentially more simbiotic than purely competitive. - Loren Heiny