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Techmeme currently enjoys the #1 tech news aggregator spot but Megite, who started out with — but has thankfully stopped — a questionable marketing blitz (hitting the comments area of blog posts that were marginally related to shoehorn in a link back to megite.com), has been making impressive, positive moves in the field.
Megite owner/operator Matthew Chen contacted me recently when he noticed that Hmm was blocking his spider and we had a short, but nice exchange about Megite. A quick aside: I like the name Megite better than Techmeme or the godawful named Tailrank which sounds like the name of a hotornot site for derrieres.
Hey Sterling, tried leaving the following comment on your blog which I’ve slightly modified below but it never showed up (false positive for Akismet, maybe?) and don’t see your trackback link any more:
Not sure if you knew this yet about Megite, but if you send Matthew your OPML he’ll make up your own Megite virtual newspaper based on the feeds you’re reading. This is a feature he’s had for quite some time, but I didn’t check out until he shared it with me.He emailed me about this feature and asked for my OPML so I pointed him to it and he made this Megite page for Hmm
. He said a version is coming that will better deal with dynamic OPML files like the one I use, that way it can deal with dynamically updated OPML.
Also if you use the WP Bad Behavior plugin you’ll want to get the Megite spider IP addresses so your site isn’t blocking his spider.
Megite river of news (RoN) is also new. The RoN style is how I prefer to read RSS feeds daily (still) using reBlog. Since March 2006 I’ve used Reblog to scan/read through over 100,000 posts and mark over 13,400 as ‘published.’
Reblog is a free rsss reader that can be installed on your own server [Hmm review: Reblog]. In August of this year I made a Reblog screencast showing how fast you can skim through posts. If you have a little extra time, install this program and then try it for a month. Try reading your RSS feeds this way and get back to me with how it works for you. Hands down to date this is the most efficient way I’ve found to skim/read the maximum amount of material in the minimum amount of time.
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Hey TDavid, not sure why your comment didn’t get through. It didn’t go to moderation, but if Akismet nailed it with a false positive there’s a good chance I would have missed it. Akismet only shows you the first 200, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to view the rest. Sorry about that.
Yes, I have been in private contact with Matthew about the personal Megite. I wanted to use it to get a feed of when one of my posts shows up on Megite, but it doesn’t seem to want to work for that purpose. Kinda nice though to have a newspaper that also gets links to related stories.
BTW, do you use a WordPress plugin for your “Related Posts” or did you roll your own in your theme code?
Haven’t had time yet to put up Reblog, but I did watch your screencast and it does look pretty efficient. FeedDemon works well for me, though, so I’ve got bigger fires to put out first.
Comment by Sterling Camden — November 22, 2006 @ 12:23 pm PST
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Matthew sent me an IM via GTalk this morning that he’s got Megite setup to handle dynamic OPML files now. What I like about the newspaper is it only uses your OPML for sources and can link out to others you aren’t subscribed to, therefore giving you other possible sources you can subscribe to. Essentially it allows anyone to create their own techmeme-like site using the sources they are subscribed to as a base. That’s a hot feature and gets over the whole “only A-listers need apply” stuff.
As for watching when your site is linked on Megite, couldn’t you just setup a script to watch the main megite RSS feed and log what posts where you are linked? I bet somebody has already cooked up something like that out there somewhere. If not, could be a cool plugin/widget/yada.
RE: the related posts plugin - I tried using the related posts plugin and it didn’t work as well (lots of unrelated results) as the similar posts plugin which indexes title and post content. We are using it here pretty much default with a minor theme customization for number of words.
Comment by TDavid — November 22, 2006 @ 12:47 pm PST
Hm….. you don’t like the name Tailrank… that’s a shame… :-/
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