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D+D FTW!!! - Mladen Srdić

all hail to interwebz goddess! - Mladen Srdić

Ahhh! I dunno, but I feel that I still fall under Geek 1.0 - Ron

I want a pocket protector!! @Mladen: I <3 the Internet :) - Mona N.

Mona: Geek 1.0 and everything, but high waters? no way. lol - Ron

intertubes ftw !eleven! :D - Mladen Srdić

What's wrong with high waters? They're now called 'capris' - Mona N.

Mona: If you're a guy with high waters, you're a dork. LOL - Ron

Hey, that's sexist! :p - Mona N.

Not quite, just biting reality. hahaha =p - Ron

there's nothing wrong with being a nerd / geek / dork! revenge of the nerds ftw! - Mona N.

I refuse to admit that an Apple nerd is the second iteration of the original geek. I'd buy that the geek and the nerd both fork from the same dork tree, though. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Also, say that second sentence five times fast out loud. :) - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

+1 Mark. The internet is seemingly filled with 'geeks' who can't fix their own computers. (I said can't, not won't) - Yuvi

Funny >the geek and the nerd both fork from the same dork tree, though. - Russellreno

Very nice! You could replace the D&D by a deck of Magic the gathering in Geek 1.0 - João Almeida via twhirl

Geek 1.5 ("The Transitional"): 1. Trusty Palm V (in all its form factor glory) in hand, 2. Inserted into casual conversation: "AOL! - Pssf! Not even on dial-up anymore -- once you go to BroadBand, you can't go back! And High-waters, w/ pair of scissors applied, have become DYI shorts that are the new source of fashion ridicule. - Micah Wittman via twhirl

If my ADND gaming group is any indication, the game is still D&D, but character sheets are on the computers. I fully believe I combine the best of both worlds; with a Tablet PC my character sheets are both digital and handwritten. I've got to admit the spreadsheet users have it nice, when it comes to stat penalties and recalculating...uh, I think I should shut up, now. - MiniMage

Data Center, Hardware (big stuff), virtualizaiton, green IT, that kind of stuff. - Chris Brogan

Because corporate IT is a lucrative business, and nobody wants to give competitors an edge. Personally, I'm under an NDA for nearly every corporate IT project I work on. Others are under the same restrictions. The people who are free to talk about it are probably not in a position to talk about it in any informed manner. - Mark Trapp

I've also found some resistance to covering it among some tech bloggers, not as "sexy" as social media or corporate mergers, for example. IT seems somehow segregated from other tech news, when in reality, IT functioning capabilities affect social media downtime, as well as downtime on corporate sites. That's one issue, among other IT issues that should be covered more. - Cathryn Hrudicka

What Mark said. Plus, this news is of interest to very few people, so traffic rates are very low, which makes selling advertising almost impossible to support such an effort. These people, like CIOs CTOs are very influential, but very few in numbers. Will be interested to see where this conversation goes. I'm trying to cover the new world of work on my http://www.workfast.tv show. That might be a good venue to feed in some of this news. - Robert Scoble

And another thing- places like Ziff need to curb their stupid ads. We get that you need to make money. Let me read the article, and THEN assault me. - Chris Brogan

Cathryn: that's because whenever we cover IT news or companies who serve IT, like, say, Rackspace (or Oracle or Microsoft or SAP) we get far fewer visits than if we write about, say, Apple or Sony. Also, there isn't that much genuine news in the IT industry. Tell me about a story you think deserves coverage on, say, TechMeme that isn't already getting coverage. - Robert Scoble

@Cathryn - though true that it's not always as sexy, it sure is necessary. - Chris Brogan

Chris, those are all really interesting subjects to me. There have been developments, not sure how "fresh" you're looking for though. Citrix is doing interesting things with virtualization. Just did a search for "green data center" and found this blog: http://www.greenm3.com/ - Jason Wehmhoener

@Jason - thanks. I happened to read that one yesterday, but it was kind of you to look around. Curious why I don't know more "deep" tech bloggers. Denis Howlett, and a few Enterprise Irregulars, and I guess that's it. - Chris Brogan

Robert - I think you're doing great stuff with WorkFast, especially when sneaking away from Tech and then coming back again (Hey, don't get me wrong- I'm a tech guy and love it). But you're right, as a MEDIA property, big tech is a bit down in the mouth, eh? - Chris Brogan

Because Enterprise companies are still very slow to adopt blogging and social media. The news is there, but it's going through bureaucracy. - Louis Gray

I feel like I should say "muffler" a few times and see if Dan Farber will come over. - Chris Brogan

I'll bookmark this thread and give it some more thought. There's certainly plenty to to be written about on this topic. - Jason Wehmhoener

Okay, and with that, I'm off to buy my daughter an raspberry sorbet. : ) - Chris Brogan

There's the Register, a ton of CMP news sites, a ton of ZDNet sites, I think IDG covers a lot of this space, there even a few blogs I've found, too. It's just that there isn't a ton of crossover into the social media space. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Rizzn - hmm. And maybe there's the rub. You're right. I forgot about the Register. Most of the CMPs are overrun by horrible ads, but they're there. Hmm. Problem is a screw loose between the chair and the keyboard, it seems. : ) - Chris Brogan

*update* I was going to recommend the Register, but read Robert's pov below. I can't sit with that. Corrections are important to this kind of environment. - Chris Brogan

Chris: Register is forever off of my reading list. They made shit up about me and didn't correct it, even after it was pointed out to them. - Robert Scoble

Well crap. If they're turds to Robert, I can't use them as a source either. Thanks for pointing that out, Robert. - Chris Brogan

There's interest in Social Media amongst that audience, but a lot of it is curiosity about what it is right now. Like I was saying yesterday, I was asked to speak to a group of CIO-types in Dallas just recently, solely because they want to learn more about Social Media. It will be an interesting conversation - I can't wait to see more of what they are interested in and how I can peak their interest. - Jesse Stay

why does it always have to be "serious IT news", why not something lighthearted for a change. - JohnBfromMemphis

Consumers buy products & services NOT technology per se ... Nuff - Scott Moskowitz

Unless they're B2B consumers. What if I'm a CIO looking to equip my data center? Am I letting my analysts make my choices for me? - Chris Brogan

People buy things that help them solve their problems. Make their lives easier. Make them more money. Technology can help that - or turn it into a disasterpiece - a master CF - Steve Kayser

Seems like the economy, combined with Sarbanes-Oxley has really got the industry stuck in the mud. The transition to SaaS and cloud computing is exciting - but the companies are methodically making the change without a lot of fireworks. In addition, the competitive landscape is becoming fierce - so folks aren't throwing press releases out there like they used to. - Douglas Karr

@Douglas - that's true. And you're right about people running off to the clouds. - Chris Brogan

How about this. The storage idustry is going to look completely different within five years from the way it does today. Mid-range storage, the fastest growing segment for the last five years may well disappear entirely as applications move into the cloud. Meanwhile, the cash cow of the industry, enterprise level storage will move up a level as customers find they need buy only ultra-high-end storage for those applications whose performance requirements are far outside what can be delivered from the cloud. - mattpovey

OK so it's not news today but it may well be soon and it's going to be a life changing surprise for many in the storage industry. I'm not saying people won't still be buying storage but the patterns are going to change dramatically and not everyone will come out the other side. - mattpovey

Anybody read The Big Switch?? From Google to Edison... Great book on IT - Kyle Lacy

Thanks for posting this question, Chris. Since my recent job change, I've been trying to read more about data center goings on. I may have found some new people to follow here. - ha3rvey

There's been nothing 'new' for quite awhile, I tend to keep my company on the bleeding edge...but as of recent, I feel I'm about 2yrs behind schedule now.....(I implemented VOIP in 2004, SAN in 2003, VMWare in production 2005)..I just read about "Web 2.0" in one of the most recent NetworkWorld or such....I thought they were so out of touch - clarke thomas

Check out the Cisco IT twitter feed, also the zdnet blogs are a great read as well. As an individual at Cisco, there is some very exciting things to come. - ciscoit

The problem is that Enterprise software is asstastic so that consultants / trainers / programmers have job security. It's a policy inherent in the system. It doesn't need to be friendly. If Enterprise apps need friendlier interfaces, and consumer apps need better security modeling - it's heading to the middle. - l0ckergn0me

But where is the line, that would please all parties involved? Sooner or later, this market is going to start resembling the Health Care business model. The question is, how do we or can we (as consumers) prevent that? - Mona N.

Well, it's like the presenter said, people are using "these apps" already - outside of an enterprise environment. That's how it changes - not from decisions handed down from on high, but from a groundswell of support from below. - l0ckergn0me

Right, so how would you propose 'spreading the word' per se, to make the consumer manipulate the flow of the B2C market? - Mona N.

It has to be organic - and that's where we have to be patient. You can't force change down anybody's throats. Not to beat a dead horse (and believe me, mine is just about as dead as dead can be), but look at the iPhone and how Apple is trying to stick its design-centric foot in an overtly-utilitarian arena. Spreading the word comes from using and sharing and talking and learning and... youth. Tomorrow's workforce is not going to put up with government "cheese" when they've been used to eating caviar. - l0ckergn0me

Hell, I wouldn't even *TOUCH* Lotus Notes back in 2000 - despite it being the groupware app for TechTV in the day. I didn't care, as a user, how powerful the backend was - I've always been a software experience connoisseur. Most people, however, are not. They're used to shit, even on their home desktop (Windows - HELLO?!). As their home experiences evolve, so will their expectations - but it takes time. As more apps move to the Web, the more likely enterprise will be FORCED to change. It's a slow crawl... - l0ckergn0me

Ya, but no one gives a crap. People dont' care about prevention, it's all about b*tching about it after the fact.. History keeps repeating itself. Look at Apple. It's slowly moving towards the Microsoft monopoly pattern and no one cares.Heck, we're contributing by labeling ourselves "early adopters" or "that's Apple" and excusing them for releasing unreliable products. - Mona N.

IT systems should be top-down at the server end, bottom up on the client end. Microsoft is/has been making a HUGE mistake with this by not releasing a full featured Outlook for OS X. But ActiveSync/Exchange OTA is on a TON of different mobile devices, and I'm starting to question (but not yet abandon) my BlackBerry for the new Treo (at least for my day job). Enterprises succeed by standardizing at the top, but productivity gets maximized when users at the other end can use what makes them comfortable. - Andrew Feinberg

I'm certainly not excusing Apple about the clusterfuck known as iPhone OS 2.0 (and you know that), but most people are used to blaming themselves - and turning to someone else to help them. "I'm helpless! The software doesn't work! I suck!" And sometimes software is made to make people feel helpless, confused, etc. - this ethos is replete throughout many enterprise-level apps. If software requires training, it should be taken out in the back and shot. We're not early adopters, we're tastemakers. - l0ckergn0me

*waiting for enterprise software apologists to chime in, but they seem to be (a) not on FriendFeed, (b) doing something else this weekend since working with software is likely a job and not a passion* - l0ckergn0me

Andrew: But we (the consumers) haven't had the choices we currently do. The market is shifting so the power can lie in the consumer's hands. Hence, corporations we would have NEVER expected, turning over their source codes. The US mobile market is finally catching up to the rest of the world, and we see how huge of an impact this country has, since the rest of the world is scrambling. ie: Nokia and Symbian merger. We're at a brink of a HUGE technical power shift so IMHO, it's imperative more than ever, for - Mona N.

consumers to take charge... There's no crucial time than NOW, but it's maddening to see no one cares. - Mona N.

You can't make someone care, Mona - they either do, or don't. And the last thing they're likely to "care" about is the software they MUST USE at work. How do we get them to care? We give them comparisons, and that (as you so rightfully pointed out) is exactly what's happening in the marketplace outside the enterprise today. The consumers need more, better, RELEVANT tools. How do you know something sucks? When you find that something else is better. PalmOS < WinMo. WinMo < iPhone. - l0ckergn0me

@chris: how well does the exchange sync on iPhone work? - Andrew Feinberg

Andrew - Exchange sync on the iPhone works astoundingly well. Painless, from setup to usage. It's a *FANTASTIC* user experience that makes the complexity of Exchange *INVISIBLE* to the average user. It doesn't hand me a Swiss Army knife with all the blades extended. Of course, the rest of the iPhone 2.0 OS has been just about anything but painful for me. Ironic? - l0ckergn0me

hmmmm...i'm still hung up keyboard + battery life. Can I have more than one exchange account at once? That'd be a killer implementation for me. - Andrew Feinberg

Chris: Agreed. Well, with mobile browsing increasing, we're seeing everyday sites becoming more mobile friendly, and companies are experimenting, whether it be using two style sheets (mobile view/desktop view ie: Facebook) or redirecting (friendfeed.com/iphone) or plain and simply overhauling (delicio.us).... IMO, sites and services are experimenting, hence my need and sense of urgency to act on this NOW and mold - Mona N.

the future market, as opposed to complaining about it down the road. So my question is.. how? How do we get people to utilize the Social Networking median as a way to get people to care. How do we spread the word so people would actually start caring? - Mona N.

That's a beautiful call-to-action. We have to give "them" direction, not the other way around. It may begin with providing open feedback (raw, unfiltered feedback) - like many bloggers, yourself included, do when a new service / software is released to the world. Given the amount of opinions floating throughout FF, I'm quite surprised that Andrew and I are seemingly the only people interested in this topic. - l0ckergn0me

Very interesting. Enjoyed the part about how hard it is for businesses to get to their customers. Heck, it's difficult to even get to your own employees if your organization is large and decentralized. - Kevin

Chris: So basically 1.blogging 2. utilizing Social Networking outlets such as FriendFeed to re-share 3. repeat the cycle?Is that really going to get people to care? I mean this post is the best example. No one is participating aside from the two of us, and folks that aren't even subscribed to me lol. Oh, the irony. - Mona N. via fftogo

I have been wanting to participate in this but YouTube is being a pain and won't let me watch the vid. So maybe I'm off base here, but I think there's an issue, especially in large enterprises, where they don't let their employees use the "cool, new, better" consumer services as a matter of policy for security or productivity reasons. What they don't realize is that people are often a lot more productive when they can use tools they LIKE. I'm not sure how to deal with the security issue, though. - Lindsay Donaghe

My previous employer, who is a child company of Microsoft, had a technical conference for about 200 of it's top architects/developers. There was a surprise keynote given by a guy from Google's business apps division. Some people were receptive, but he got a lot of hammering on security issues, especially the idea of having a client company store their business-critical data on Google's servers which are subject to search and seizure by the US government. - Lindsay Donaghe

Mona - What gets people to care is incentive and relevance. When you share a perspective on an issue they care about, or a tool they never knew they needed, or didn't realize even existed - you're feeding the cycle. It's why Google will always bring you more traffic than just about any source on the Web today - because people are searching for information, assistance, answers. They only care because they have to care - you care because you just DO. Show them how it could be, get them excited about software. - l0ckergn0me

Lindsay: That's exactly why this topic interests me so much. It's not because of Google or security, or even the word conundrum. It's the mere fact that the market IS changing. We (the consumers) can potentially free ourselves from teh constraints of what the corporations dictate as 'our needs', so software and services are catered TO us, as opposed to AT us. That way, we no longer have to hear about NDA this and even they (internally) aren't aware of developments, and supply and demand, and bla bla bla. The market is shifting towards a consumer driven one, and as a consumer, I definitely want to partake in it... FF is one of the BEST examples, since we see FFers (fftogo, Greasemonkey, Noiseriver etc) giving us what we want, and not the other way around... Imagine if it were like this ALL across the board :) - Mona N.

@Chris: It's not that I care just because... It's more so the power we (consumers) potentially have...? Or maybe it's simply, I'm a control freak...? HA - Mona N.

Any other thoughts? :) - Mona N.

Other thought - What chris said 'bout incentive. I showed Friendfeed to a non-tech friend of mine, and he was totally not impressed. Then I showed him the conversation around Mona being drunk a coupla weeks ago, and then Mona accusing me of not having seen Star Wars, and then Michelle's Brown series of posts, and the reactions to the Earthquake and Mitchell Tsai's shares - - Yuvi

He said 'Dude, these are my kinda people!'. And he's joining up. Had I kept on about powershell and blogging and the A-List - things he doesn't give a shit about, he wouldn't have cared. But, when I showed him things he *already cared about*, but in a new way, it stuck. - Yuvi

No, I didn't make sense. - Yuvi

I love the primary word in shared wordles... - "Czar" DJ Peterman

I like seeing others post information. Interesting to see what they are posting about. - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver

Yet wondering why JAZZ isn't very visible in this wordle. I'm overwhelming people with jazz posts here :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

its pretty big.. I found it. Compared to things like NoiseRiver and FriendFeed though, you know? I see Miles and Coltrane in there too :) - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver

@Tim: Ah yes! Found it too! I see Miles and Coltrane too! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

hah! That's great! How did you get it to stretch out so long? - Lindsay Donaghe

@Lindsay: It's actually Tim who made it. Tim would you answer the lady!! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Lindsay: if you use the "open window" button in the bottom left of the applet, then resize the window to your liking, then refresh the Wordle, it will fill in to the size of your window. - Trent Olson

Cool picture! - Tim FitzGerald

It's really great how these wordles tend to sum our online persona up quite well. - Eric Florenzano

I must started a sensation today! I've seen 3 other Wordles today since I posted my delicious one earlier! http://friendfeed.com/e/8974b2... - Susan Beebe

Who's going around making these? I would love to see one of me, if thats possible. - Colby Olson

@Colby - go to http://wordle.net/ - Zee from WeDoCreative

Boy directeur, you sure do like that "noiseriver" thing..LOL - Rahsheen™

@Rahsheen: Man! I do! I love that NoiseRiver thing, I'm sure that the guy who made is so awesome (EDIT: +handsome) , smart and strong... that every friendfeed's gal dreams of marrying him ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver

@Lindsay Donaghe (bluecockatoo): I do a couple things, I change the default # of words to around 300-500. The reason directeurs is streched more is because his words are a little more evenly distributed (with the exception of NR of course). In wordle, you can remove some of the bigger words to stretch it a bit more. - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver

@Colby Olson (colbyolson): http://img37.picoodle.com/img/... - if you want to make your own, here is your text: http://textsnip.com/932a19 - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver

@Lindsay Donaghe (bluecockatoo): what Trent said too! - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver

I got pissed when I saw mine had the big word twitter on it. I'm like f#(% NO! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

@Colby Olson (colbyolson): yours is interesting :) - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver

No. Perhaps it shows. - Mo "Killer Bee" Kargas

"anxious to connect with people?" - do you mean RL or online ? - Peter Dawson

In this case, I mean online, but only because I'm watching the kids. - Chris Brogan

yes! When we traveled to Austin and when we ventured up to Vancouver. Definitely! Also when we've had blogger meetups. - Todd Jordan

Hey, Todd. Good to see you. : ) - Chris Brogan

That's a mighty personal question, Chris. Do you ever wake up needing to brush your teeth? - Edward Vielmetti

nah. when I wake up the last thing I want is to connect with people. - Nicholi

Chris, yes, I am human and need to sleep. If I open a convo at 9/10PM in the evening with folks on .AU / .JP zones and then next AM, I am anxious to see what responses are there on thread. Secondly, there are classic face2face when u meet your online friends, is like "its just like old friends meeting for the 1st time" !! anxiety's surfaces and then quickly disappears. However, there is a flip side to this too..online freinds too - Peter Dawson

Great to run across you Chris. Yes. I'm typically introverted but soc netting has really encouraged me to spread my wings, meet folks online and more in person. Been to several meetups now - tweeters, bloggers, and social media. Always excited about that now. - Todd Jordan

Edward - I brush my teeth reasonably quickly after waking up. Shortly after I use the toilet and wash my hands. - Chris Brogan

Not when I wake up, but usually around 10 am. :) - Sonciary Honnoll

I hate to admit it, but get on computer before I grab coffee. - Michelle Martinez

what michelle said - wait coffees ready be right back ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

I just woke up, picked up my iPhone, fired up FF to see what's what & saw this...post complete...connected. Good Morning. - Carlos Ayala

I usually wake up cranky, in a totally disconnected mode, after a few smokes things change a little... - jk5027a

Anxious isn't the word I'd use, perhaps eager. Every morning it's coffee, a smoke, and a perusal of the morning rush to beat the next guy to publication. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Give me an hour or so. Then we'll talk. - Paul Whitaker

Yes, I love morning coffee meetings. - David Finch

I'm a morning person. don't talk to me past 3 in the afternoon. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

Sometimes I rush the getting ready process so I can sit down and see what everyone is up to you :) - Jennifer Van Grove via twhirl

No. Unless you mean filled with anxiety over having to meet with people ;) - Clint Ecker

No, not really. I get anxious on catching up on whatever I've missed, a holdover habit from my youth. Usually, whatever "happened" is not that important but I still want to get "in the know" whether it is political news or just pop culture. Once I get the basic facts about a situation, I can relax and just talk to people, read stories in depth, etc. That's not anxious, that's normally pure pleasure. - Liz

Always. Laptop is by my bed, jump on to Twitter. - Francine Hardaway

more than connecting with people.. it it to know wht these people are upto!!! - Moksh Juneja via twhirl

I wake up (this includes washing face, etc in bathroom), look at the list of new emails, have coffee, read twitter and THEN say good morning. I tend to need coffee before interacting. - chelpixie

I have only heard of Techmeme recently. - possible248

if you're happy with your news sources it's all fine then - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I have different opnions on these "meme" subjects... :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Agreed, I've maybe been to the site twice. - Eric Florenzano

I read techmeme daily. How else would I find out what everyone else is talking about. Of course the problem then becomes that some only talk about things that are talked about in order to game the system. I hope that gaming part gets fixed. One way to fix it would be to allow users to moderate. - Bjorn Tipling

@bjorn: Here we are! :) This is why I humbly think that the user's interests should be considered in the center of every system. Popularity alone is easily corrupted and will be corrupting the value of things - directeur via NoiseRiver

One way to find out what people are talking about is to watch FF, Twitter, and so on. That's the real buzz. - Chris Baskind

That makes 2 of us. I looked at it once and moved on. - Lucretia Pruitt

Not sure what techmeme is, but between popurls, some news feeds and a set of international RL friends the important suff is covered. - sergiooo

Ditto. - AJ Kohn

You're crazy! I'd love to see an eco-meme. That way we know who's getting to the news first ... - Preston Koerner

Techmeme is a decent resource for people who use it because it works in a similar way that Friendfeed does. It allows you to follow the exploits of those who you find interesting. If you don't follow the Techmeme set in general, you'll find it completely uninteresting. Sort of like a Soap Opera tabloid. - Steve Spalding

What's Techmeme? - Mavericks of Troy, NV!

This afternoon I got a haircut, bought some new shorts at Target, & now I'm grilling sausages & chicken for this week's dinners. - joshua m. neff

With the feeds I have in gReader, it would be redundant for me to read. - Vince DeGeorge

I've never seen Techmeme, nor have I even heard anyone mention it until this thread. Whatever it is, it's probably an abomination. I'm feeling a little queasy even writing about it, frankly. - Gabe Rivera

I've been there a few times. Didn't immediately like/understand its importance and moved on. Some of the "A-list" bloggers seem to really get into it (and are able game it well *arrington - twitter*). - acedanger the maverick via fftogo

I've never read it either. Doubt I'll start anytime soon. - Akiva Moskovitz

I didn't think it was a tool for the masses: it's a way for people in tech to identify how stories progress through the internets. That is, if you wanted to have maximal impact in a PR or marketing push, you ought to try for x, y, and z blog to cover you rather than hitting them all, because if you do, all the other blogs will cover you anyway. Was it intended as a real news source? - Mark Trapp

I only tend to visit it on the rare occasion that I've ended up on it. Then I find that it's somewhat interesting. But it's not my "go-to" source in the mornings. Don't expect to be either. It's over-rated. - David Cohn

I don't need some automated system to tell me what's good. This is why we have FriendFeed—I have my FRIENDS tell me what's good! :) - James Mowery

I agree, James. I just commented on another discussion that I don't understand these "lists." Why do I need a list compiled by another person or service to tell me who I need to follow and read? It contributes to the sheep mentality that dominates the blogosphere and I hate to see that happen here. A person's comments are not valid or worth reading just because another self-righteous person told me so. A person's comments are worth reading because others find them interesting. - Trish R

techmeme is the news.google.com for wannanerds - Gregory Lent

@Trish, I agree. FriendFeed = Techmeme killer. ;) Nah, I kid, I kid. - James Mowery

I love techmeme - Bjorn Tipling

Gabe - hahaha, (Gabe Rivera is the creator of techmeme) - I wish I could post links to a comment - Bjorn Tipling

Techmeme, Digg, Reddit, Google News, and all these other meme-tracking sites have only the most limited of utility. They're based on what's popular, what's popular can always be gamed, and there's an echo chamber effect when people will jump on a bandwagon just for the attention. (That said, I've unsubscribed from just about every tech blog because they only ever talk about what's on Techmeme anyway, and rarely ever add anything besides a headline to the "discussion"). - Eric

Google News is not a meme tracker. - LPH™

Yeah, it was funny to see Gabe show up. :-) - Chris Baskind