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Techmeme: Pursue It or Screw It?

August 28, 2008 | Blogging

OK, so there is probably not a single tech blogger out there that isn’t aware of Techmeme. And of those, a fair majority of them probably write with the expressed interest of getting featured on Techmeme. Should they?

And in my case, I have a weird problem. This blog (Davidrisley.com) has made it onto Techmeme several times. However, PCMech does not. In fact, I don’t believe PCMech has EVER made it onto Techmeme. This despite the fact that PCMech absolutely CREAMS this blog in terms of daily traffic, despite the fact that PCMech is a MUCH older site, and despite the fact that we cover current tech news on that site pretty often (a lot more than I do here).

With this site, I can at least get a link on Techmeme by doing something as simple as linking to a feature story from Techmeme. I know – I’ve tried it as an experiment. If I do the same thing with PCMech, it never works.

It is almost as if PCMech is on some kind of blacklist on Techmeme. Why? I have no earthly clue. And it is complete speculation on my part. This is just a pattern I have noticed.

Should I even pursue this or should I just say “fuggit”?

Picture 2 As a tech blogger, I’d like to know why a site as large as PCMech never gets on Techmeme. But, at the same time, Techmeme is a problem for the tech blogosphere and I’m not sure I really want to give it more credit than it deserves. I think tech bloggers give Techmeme way too much weight. Most of the real world outside the world of tech bloggers don’t ever read Techmeme. So, Techmeme is pretty much the hub of the entire tech blog echo chamber!

PCMech has become successful by discussing things the rest of the world cares about – not necessarily the tech blogger echo chamber. I mean, gimme a break…Apple practically DOMINATES Techmeme….this despite the fact that Apple’s market share is in the single digits. If that isn’t an echo chamber, I don’t know what is.

So, the question again: should I care that Techmeme digitally ignores PCMech?

Maybe my audience would be a lot bigger if I kept out of the tech echo chamber? (and yes, that was a rhetorical question).

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  • Marianne
    Until I read this blog had NEVER heard of Techmeme. After looking at it, came away very un-impressed. I check out PCMech everyday, I get email per request from Tech Republic everyday, I'm in the Ubuntu forums at least once a day and of course I read Cnet and Drudge everyday....I found nothing on Techmeme, that I hadn't already heard, read or seen someplace else....So I think that PCMech is fine just like it is!!!!
  • Open a window; I'll tell you why:

    If a reason through a transom asks a ransom for a reason, and when opening that transom lets fresh air in for the season, then the fresh air from the transom is a'breezin for a reason, and as ransom for the open transom's fresh air stops you wheezin.

    That's cleared the air:

    If an echo in an echo-chamber comes from all directions; then a visitor inside that chamber hears from any section. If the echo is a perfect copy tinged with one's inflections, then the visitor at any point can hear without corrections.

    When the story that is being told's the same from any point; then the visitor can read the exact same throughout the joint. If the story that they read is all the same where e'er they might; then the visitor can be quite sure to read from any site.

    Are we clear so far?

    When the visitor becomes quite sure they have just what they need; then your site may well be bypassed as they have the facts they need: With the facts they need intact there is no longer need to read; thus the visitor departs the echo chamber, guaranteed.

    When the visitor departs with information that they need; then as part of echo-chamber there's no danger that they'll read, from your site, although they even might have clicked upon your feed; now they have the information that they want - there is no need.

    It's really quite elementary. :)
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