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Add Techmeme Search To Firefox & IE 7 Search Box

Add Techmeme Search To Firefox & IE 7 Search Box
After a long wait, Gabe finally introduced a search engine for Techmeme that is actually very good. You may also install Techmeme to your Firefox or IE 7 search box. To add Techmeme Search in Firefox, click here and for Internet Explorer 7, click here.

Techmeme = Short Attention Span Theater ?

Ed Bott of ZDNet comes down heavily on Techmeme which he calls the "Short Attention Span Theater" of the blogosphere. Excerpts: "It encourages reactive, uncritical thinking. The blogswarm gets outraged by whatever they see on Techmeme, they write down whatever pops into their heads (without checking any facts and in most cases without even following the links), and then moves on to the next topic.

Time-Lapse Video – How Techmeme Change Over Time

It’s amazing to see how blog stories make it to the Techmeme homepage, stay there for a couple of minutes (or hours) and then get replaced by fresh news. This Techmeme video clip captures 50 hours of Techmeme activity and replays it in 50 seconds.

TechMeme or BlogRunner from New York Times

BlogRunner, like Techmeme, shows important stories and what’s being said about those stories by other writers, be they journalists or bloggers. By reading these stories from a site such as BlogRunner, you get a more detailed, richer picture of what’s actually going on.