(Update below)
Now it's Steve Rubel who wants to take Robert Scoble's Brrreeeport experiment to the next level, this time with Breememe. As he describes it:
"I loved Scoble's Brrreeeport test for web/blog search. Now let's build on it with Breememe - the battle of the memetrackers! I want to count up how many links TailRank and memeorandum aggregate around this test and see how quickly they do so."
So apologies if you think all this is rather silly, having played along for a couple of posts already, but I'm participating in the name of web research.
Let's see where the memes fall.
UPDATE:
Gabe Rivera, the founder of memeorandum, makes the following point to Steve Rubel in a comment:
"I should point out though that memeorandum almost does the opposite of what you want, by design. The software deliberately omits links to posts ("memes"?) that it discovers, in order to improve readability."
Read the full comment below, but his point is well taken, that memeorandum is not designed for meme-tracking.
The test seems to be better suited for blog search engines from folks like Google and IceRocket, both of which have picked up the meme already.
IMO, this is more a search test, not memeorandum, which deliberately omits certain posts. (Few people need to read every lasy links.) Here's a comment I left on Steve's blog, which hasn't been moderated yet:
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Hi Steve, glad you like the site. I should point out though that memeorandum almost does the opposite of what you want, by design. The software deliberately omits links to posts ("memes"?) that it discovers, in order to improve readability. The idea is that not every post that links to X deserves to be read as commentary on X.
So in that regard, you seem to want a different kind of service, one that definitely has its value, but not one I aim to offer right now.
Posted by: Gabe | Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 06:47 PM