Techmeme search lets you search the best blogs and news sources on the Internet. Now you can also create and subscribe to personlized RSS feeds from Techmeme Search.
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.
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.
Planetaki is a new service that helps you read articles from different websites at one place in a format similar to river of news. This is a completely different concept from regular RSS readers like Bloglines or Google Reader.
Tweetmeme is like Techmeme for Twitter. It helps you track the most popular links published on Twitter and you can also know about Twitter members who are talking tweeting about that topic.
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.
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.