Comedy Central Story Makes Me ask How do Aggregators Work?

Posted on October 28, 2006
Filed Under What's New, For Argument's Sake |

I picked up on more YouTube woes on techmeme just now, this time related to Comedy Central. Techmeme has become one of my daily stop off points. When I’m writing an article I feel I can go there knowing I will pick up some relevant tidbit to use and I stop by to see if there’s a debate I might contribute to. These past couple of days though I wonder is a weakness showing, Gabe? The Reuters story about SKYPE was way old and the Boing Boing report about YouTube taking down Comedy Central material, it just went up on techmem but I’m sure I read it either yesterday or much earlier today. I’d be interested to know how those kinds of things slip through an otherwise excellent service.

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2 Responses to “Comedy Central Story Makes Me ask How do Aggregators Work?”

  1. Gabe on October 29th, 2006 2:37 pm

    Ah, sometimes it’s hard for the system to understand when a link that has built up momentum in the past few days just rehashes an old story. This tends to happen more on weekends too.

    I expect improvements on this front, but slow improvements. Could take months / years.

    Glad you otherwise like Techmeme!

  2. Haydn on October 30th, 2006 7:12 am

    It’s a great service. I’ve noticed megite is appearing in my traffic - looks just like a clone.

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