Meet Ms. Techmeme: Megan McCarthy Explains All
Favorite blogger pastime: Carping about Techmeme, the aggregation site that calls itself the technology world's newspaper of record.
Used to be that most of their fulminations generally went unanswered, because:
1) Techmeme creator Gabe Rivera generally keeps to himself, at least in the physical world.
2) Rivera created Techmeme using an algorithm that was supposed to automatically suss out which stories were most important, using a link-based hierarchy similar to Google's (GOOG).
But dudes who are still unhappy with Techmeme (and yes, I mean dudes - with a couple rare exceptions that prove the rule (hello, boss) this is unfortunately a Man's Man's Man's World) have someone they can vent at/to. Meet Megan McCarthy, the former Valleywag writer who Rivera hired late last year to add a human's touch to the site. Headline for his blog post announcing the move: "Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work."
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