Gabe Rivera launches baseball memeorandum - another real memetracker

Posted Apr 3rd 2006 10:28PM by Marshall Kirkpatrick
Filed under: social news, aggregators

Gabe Rivera, proud pappa of Tech.Memeorandum and a growing number of other automated memetrackers on various topics, today launched one on baseball. Ballbug tracks the most linked to posts about baseball around the athleto-blogo-sphero. When will he stop launching these kinds of sites on various topics? He seemed to indicate to me in a rather cryptic comment here awhile ago that it couldn't go on forever, but he wasn't about to stop either.

I'd like to take this opportunity too to say that I don't think these kinds of sites, which are fully automated, can be described using the same word as we use for sites like Digg.com - where storyies rise to the top because of human votes inside the system. The word "memetracker," is I believe, misused when it's applied to Digg and other systems directly influenced by humans. Plus those types of sites are tracking, if anything, specific URLs more than general memes defined by URLs grouped together - aren't they? That's my two cents on the subject.

Reader Comments

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1. Nope, they don't share the same name, AFAIC.

Memetrackers:

http://mashable.com/2006/02/03/the-rise-of-the-memetrackers/

Memediggers:

http://mashable.com/2006/03/12/memediggers/

Posted at 8:02AM on Apr 4th 2006 by Pete Cashmore

2. MK: As I said on your personal blog, you've talked (at least to me) about the proper use of things like del.icio.us. I just submitted my first Digg. Naturally, it was The Blogswana Project. I would be interested in reading an exploration of what is 'acceptable' (given a posited starting point) and what is not in these furly-diggy situations. Equally as much, I would be interested in hearing what your readers might say about it. For me, I am doing too much to do a lot of, say, digging on my own. Most of what I do is devoted to these -- why did G-d make me this way? (And yes, I'm blaming H-m and yes I said H-m though I don't really imagine he has a gender as such and yes I omitted one of the vowels although I'm not Jewish.)

Posted at 9:22PM on May 3rd 2006 by Curt

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