The Embargo Breaks Part Deux: Is a Press Release News?

The past two weeks have undoubtedly been rough ones if you are a public relations rep. There are A-list bloggers bandying about terms like blacklist and threatening to never cover another pitch. And I’m sure there are PR reps who are very upset and probably quaking in their boots worrying about how on earth they [...]

SheGeeks Reaches New Heights

SheGeeks has been making some great headlines recently. I was interviewed by Allen Stern of CenterNetworks last week. I reached over 500+ subscribers a few days ago. Today, SheGeeks made its first headline on Techmeme (I think), and some great discussions have stayed ON SheGeeks for the majority of this week (here, here, and here). [...]

Meme13 Lends A Helping Hand To Techmeme Newbies

Steven Hodson of WinExtra made an announcement today about Meme13 in a post titled "Tracking the Techmeme newcomers"
The Meme13 web service is a tracker that follows the Techmeme leaderboard and according to Steven Hodson’s article:
[...] mashes together the last 13 sites that made their first appearance on the Techmeme Leaderboard. You can read these sites [...]

Get Your B-List News At Techsted

It seems Sarah Perez of the Grand Effect network, ReadWriteWeb, and Sarah In Tampa has already discovered this little nugget in her post on ReadWriteWeb entitled “Breaking the Techmeme Habit“.
“About B-list : This is dedicated to all those blogs and stories that are less popular but still great.”
I recently ran across Techsted, which is a [...]

Techmeme: A Flawed System

Yes, I’m pissed and maybe I shouldn’t be, but I that’s not up for judgement. This is a pretty ugly rant and I want to apologize to those who expected better from me and taught me to write better than this. Still, I’m only human and my blood is boiling.
As of 4:41p.m. EST, Twubble [...]