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Video interlude: Techmeme time-lapse
If you follow technology blogs, Techmeme soon becomes almost irreplaceable — it’s like a front page for the blogosphere, one that changes almost minute-by-minute to show where the big fires of commentary are (for better or worse), and where the small sparks that could touch off a new one are coming from. It’s almost biological in a way, and so it’s fascinating to see Amit Agarwal’s time-lapse video of Techmeme, taken over a 50-hour period and condensed into 50 seconds of video.
It looks an awful lot like those Time-Life documentary shorts that show ants in the desert erecting a giant anthill with tiny scraps of fluff and lint (and critics might say the fluff and lint part is right on the money). So what is Techmeme.com building? Consensus, I think. It’s like a continuously running poll. Sometimes the questions are ephemeral, and sometimes they are pretty important. In any case, it’s fun to watch.
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"ants in the desert erecting a giant anthill" - you said it, not me!
Little ants on the bottom and a few kings of the (ant)hill :-(
Somewhat relevant to the post I was tipped that another meme tracker “Megite” is overtaking Techmeme in the last few weeks according to compete.com:
http://technozzle.com/?p=20
Maybe Techmeme is not that prevalent as we like to think, or maybe it’s only popular in the tech blogger circle (the echo chamber).
Best technology meme is ePlatform. Go check it out @ http://meme.eplatform.com