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December 11, 2006

Searchable Techmeme

Searchable Techmeme: Techmeme regularly polls the RSS feeds of a selected pool of bloggers, then analyzes which links are common in recent items. It's a fast way of find breaking topics of discussion and pointers to original news reporting. But it has been hard to look past the current moment... Techmeme has an "Archive" box where you can try entering certain calendar times, and Google searches sometimes work, sometime don't. What's available today is a listing of all multi-linked articles from the past week... fast and easy to do a textsearch on this page. (btw, I'd encourage founder Gabe Rivera to archive these, in any type of UI... this is historic material, stuff we can't risk losing.) Anyway, although there are incentives to pile-ons, Techmeme is still a very efficient way to discover controversial tech news, or different perspectives on politics... it's great to be able to look back over a week like this.

Posted by JohnDowdell at December 11, 2006 08:13 AM

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Thanks JD. Well, even without archive pages, I do have the data squirreled away. So when I get the resources, I will be able to create that archival river thing. In theory!

Posted by: Gabe at December 11, 2006 01:34 PM