Polymeme is a new memetracker that bills itself as "a polymath's guide to news." Polymeme is the brainchild of Evgeny Morozov who started the project because of his frustration with most current memetrackers and the echo chamber effect often associated with them. Polymeme is based on Drupal and uses Reuter's OpenCalais to tag and index the 25,000 blogs it tracks. - Steaprok
An Illinois woman says her beloved miniature dachshund gnawed off her right big toe while she was asleep. Linda Floyd told the Alton Telegraph for a story Wednesday that her beloved Roscoe was euthanized because of safety concerns. - Steaprok
Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. - Steaprok
And now, for the list to surpass all lists. The productivity guide you’ve been waiting for your entire life. The only resource you’ll ever need. - Steaprok
The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according to government and private industry officials. - Steaprok
Hey Brian, drop the direct link next time instead of the Sphinn link. There's no point in pointing users here to Sphinn and make them click extra to reach the article. Direct link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Maki
Um, yeah, that was the point... sphinn helps people on sphinn see this article too... that's why it's good to sphinn it. FF isn't enough for me... I like to get salient news from multiple sources. I suppose it would be different if techcrunch had a sphinn button, but as far as I can tell, there's no place to do that from the blog post, not even in the "share" pop-up. And that's pretty much the only news voting service or bookmarking service I use right now, so it's important to me. - Brian Carter
Brian, I know you want more votes for your submission but I still feel its annoying for non-users to have to click twice to get to the article. Seeing that there's zero value-added discussion on Sphinn, its virtually a useless interstitial for those who aren't Sphinn users. Just my two cents... - Maki
I'm going to add my two cents as well, which will most likely offend some. Had I been in Maki's place, I would have deleted this post and reshared the direct link to the room. That's better than what I normally do when someone attempts to "share" their submission with me through another social media site (i.e. Stumbleupon). Defriend the user and bury the article. - Gerard Barberi via twhirl
Yikes, sorry guys, didn't realize it was such a breech of etiquette here. Noted and changing behavior! :-) - Brian Carter
I've tried most of these desktop clients, and Twhirl is my favorite. It handles friendfeed the best and still lets me see what's going on in the twitterverse. Noiseriver and Friendfeedmachine look particularly interesting - and useful. - Gerard Barberi via twhirl
Hey, relax! One or two Sphinn articles isn't going to kill anyone, as long as it doesn't become a regular occurrence, right? - Andy DeSoto
What are your thoughts on this, seems a bit lofty to me. - Steaprok via Bookmarklet
If they can get it working again, then sure. It was pretty near take-off velocity before things started to go pear shaped. - john conroy
I feel like twitter is the "FedEx", "Kleenex", or "google" of microblogging. They have the street cred name recognition to be worth $X. - Joseph Rodgers
A study of radio chirps and whistles blasting from Earth's magnetic field—sounding a bit like the famous Star Wars droid R2-D2—may help astronomers devise new ways of searching for planets orbiting distant stars. - Steaprok
I used to be annoyed by people who commented on my Twitter messages (tweets) in FriendFeed, rather than replying directly to me in Twitter (the platform I was using). - Steaprok
From the page: "The Web Digest for Marketers has been in existence online for 13 years. At first Larry Chase, founder and editor of the newsletter, had just one topic to cover â" online marketing â" but as the industry went forth and multiplied, online marketing expanded to cover 52 different niches. Chase's staying power comes from his ability to explore these niches and create great content for his subscribers. Here he tells us everything there is to know about creating longevity through long tail content for newsletters" - Steaprok
"dude, having worked in the record industry I can tell you they are the most backwards thinking, narrow minded industry I have ever come across. rather then get with the times, their solution is to try and drag the rest of the world back in time." - Steaprok
<br/>Miami Beach undercover detectives who paid a $40 entry fee and boarded a stretch limousine bus Sunday found women onboard offering oral sex and lap dances for money, authorities said. - Steaprok
Scott McClellan, President Bush’s former press secretary, told a House panel that he had been unfairly vilified by Bush supporters for his recent book. - Steaprok
