I have become a big fan of Inquisitr and for what its worth have linked to it often for exactly this reason: "Write for your audience, not the headline" I am sure I send .000001% of a major site but I have found myself enjoying the coverage. You may not be on techmeme's radar, but are certainly growing on others.
dave
· 1 year ago
Duncan, there's a lot of evidence that backs up your theory -- which I agree with.
A link from TechMeme is worth a few hundred page reads, as you say, sometimes as many as 1000. Nothing to sneeze at, and they're mostly pretty interesting people.
But if anyone ever writes content for TechMeme they have no integrity unless they say that they do it (and no one does as far as I know).
My best pieces (imho) never get notice from TM, but I'll keep writing not for TM, or for my "audience" -- I just write about things I care about, and let the chips fall where they may.
gregorylent
· 1 year ago
techmeme is the bulletin board at your local safeway, little 3 x 5 cards, ballpoint pen letters, lawns mowed, babysitter needed, daycare offered, lost kitten answers to max, for sale, 1983 mustang, 63,000 miles, regular oil changes...
Duncan totally totally agreed with each and every assertion made in this post. There's something funny that I just found. The day you left TechCrunch Arrington wrote a post titled "We Lost a blogging giant today Duncan Riley moves on" However today as I tried to read the story again I couldnt find anything there... Check for yourself http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/05/we-lost-a-...
I guess Arrington does not even wants to share tiny miny bit of link juice with Inquisitr and the post is removed as it contained link to this site.
@JoeHobot
· 1 year ago
Now this is quality post of the day! I love it man! See I am in the same situation as you are, and then I am thinking down the road 1-2 years when my blog hits let say 50.000 visitors per day , techmeme is going to link or maybe not. But what does it matter who has how much visitors or how popular you are. I mean my site is growing up as well as my popularity on twitter, friendfeed, digg and plurk yet reason is not because I get more and more visitors but the quality for what I stand behind my blog. "short tech news with more resources"
Anyways I ejoyed reading your blog post and subscribed to your Rss feeds.
Darren Teller
· 1 year ago
i honestly can't understand why so many bloggers get worked up about techmeme. it's a aggregation site, for chrissakes. read dave's post underneath. seems he still can't get past techmeme. i suppose if they linked consistently to him a la arrington, he'd have nothing but kind words for the site. enough. let's get past this. techmeme is for the lazy, frankly. it's hardly representative of the best that the web has to offer. i don't know whether gabe rigs the system, but the site clearly is skewed.
the only reason i'm even bothering to comment about this is due to your post. keep writing good stuff...doesn't matter a whit whether it's "techmemed" or not.
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"Write for your audience, not the headline" I am sure I send .000001% of a major site but I have found myself enjoying the coverage. You may not be on techmeme's radar, but are certainly growing on others.
A link from TechMeme is worth a few hundred page reads, as you say, sometimes as many as 1000. Nothing to sneeze at, and they're mostly pretty interesting people.
But if anyone ever writes content for TechMeme they have no integrity unless they say that they do it (and no one does as far as I know).
My best pieces (imho) never get notice from TM, but I'll keep writing not for TM, or for my "audience" -- I just write about things I care about, and let the chips fall where they may.
just www.dlisted.com for techlusters
nothing to live your life by
I guess Arrington does not even wants to share tiny miny bit of link juice with Inquisitr and the post is removed as it contained link to this site.
Anyways I ejoyed reading your blog post and subscribed to your Rss feeds.
the only reason i'm even bothering to comment about this is due to your post. keep writing good stuff...doesn't matter a whit whether it's "techmemed" or not.
cheers