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
"A few weeks ago I talked with Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, about the challenge of innovating quickly and building stable infrastructure while 250,000 new members are added to the social network every day" - Maki via Bookmarklet
the comments on the original article are lame. The best thing they could do is open the service all the way. - Joseph Rodgers
Wow theres a lot. ...a lot of a lot ... the likely cause was the other day when what's his name pointed his Nokia at his monitor, giving an infinite picture-in-picture of the stream he was running on qik - Dan Covington
All: an API client malfunctioned or intentionally spammed with these comments. We disabled that API client to prevent the problem, and we are reaching out to the developer. - Bret Taylor
"As long as people were focused on documenting the experience, they couldn’t be fully in the experience." - Fu_
Sometimes it can enhance the experience - so it becomes shared with a community. The problem is perhaps more when people document their personal events and interactions. I found this when video recording - you weren't part of the party, just an observer. - David Sim
I'm distracted by cell cameras at shows. It's visually distracting, but also takes away from the shared musical experience by constantly reminding me of the degree to which people's desire for social capital motivates them to go to concerts. It's human nature, and there's certainly nothing wrong with it, but it's not something I want to think about when I'm trying to enjoy the music and truly enjoy something for the sake of how it sounds and makes me feel. - Gabe Ragland
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
Been disappointed with Facebook lately, just had to write about it. - Andy DeSoto via Bookmarklet
It's not as well geared to group discussion as are things like this and Pownce. But it's also often the main online connection to the folks we know in the brick and mortar world. - Heidi Cool
A thorough, current list of 150+ categorized Twitter desktop & mobile applications, browser extensions & resource links for Twitter users, addicts, social media users & marketers to utilize. Yes, there are a lot already on the Web but a lot of the links are outdated & none of the newbie sites are on it! - ChaCha Fance via Bookmarklet
I think is the logic evolution of that - Alex Barredo
Interesting timing on the article because of Mixx's newest feature of user defined communities. Searching is always important, but social search vs submixxes/subreddits is an interesting question. "Sub topics" give you a filter, which is not a search, but could give you a small enough subset of information to be useful. - Rob Diana
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
According to investigators, 12 year-old Berta Guevara ran away from home with her 2 month-old baby on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Police say the teen’s mother was concerned for the safety of both children. - Janet Forte via Bookmarklet
Twitter will only die when the "A" Listers leave and declare it dead ;) - Shane
No, there's still a core of active users on there - who are not A list bloggers. Journalists and News agencies seem to be sticking it out with Twitter. - Gerard Barberi via twhirl
I love FriendFeed and I’ve been spending a lot more time on it recently so I’ve decided to create a Dark Theme for it. Have fun ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ - Brandon via Bookmarklet
