40 posts and columns on TechMeme
The Best Tech News Site That Isn’t a Tech News Site That Didn’t Exist Yesterday
Techmeme Heds — that’s @nottechmeme to you — is the best thing to show up on the Web in the last 21 hours.Ten Things About Me
Twelve Things About Voxer’s Tom Katis
George Washington, startup president.Google’s Answer to the Great Chromecast/Netflix Giveaway Mystery: There’s No Mystery — We Sold Out
Google says it didn’t “end” its Netflix/Chromecast giveaway — it sold out.That CBS/CNET/Dish Story Won’t Go Away
The trade group that runs CES re-awards Dish an award that CNET wanted to give it four weeks ago. And for good measure, says it’s cutting ties with CNET, too.Nap Time
I don’t want to deal with the obligations attached to raising money, and I still want to be able to take a nap after lunch.
—Gabe Rivera’s response to SoftTech VC’s Jeff Clavier, when asked if he was interested in an angel investment for Techmeme
I, Editor
There’s value in being divorced from your friends … I’d rather see what’s on the front of the New York Times.
— Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera on the value of human editing and curation
Eye to Eye
Tools for Taming the Media
Clay Shirky and John Battelle share their strategies for media consumption.Twitter + Robots = Instant Stories, No Humans Required
Narrative Science, the start-up that turns baseball box scores into automated stories, tries the same trick, using Twitter. Very interesting.How Facebook Fired Up Techmeme
Spotify song sharing is like the new FarmVille, and its auto-sharing turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for folks who didn’t quite understand just how frictionless Open Graph sharing would be.
CNET’s Molly Wood, from a much-discussed Friday article entitled “How Facebook is ruining sharing”