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Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

AlexHammer — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:14:21 -0000

This is a fascinating post.

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

GearsofPeace — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:39:53 -0000

This is very cool. I wonder if we'll start seeing a bit of the DIGG controversy rising from this-where certain power users get all the clicks to stories, even if a smaller blogger breaks it first. Hope you keep researching this!

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Louis Gray — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:34:08 -0000

That's a smart work-around. Why didn't I think of that?

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Louis Gray — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:33:45 -0000

On that type of real analysis, I'd lean to Yuvi Panda of The Statbot. He just wrapped up a series of analysis on Techmeme sources, which you can find at http://thestatbot.com/. He does a great job.

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Yuvi Panda — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:14:56 -0000

Wow. *Bow*

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

alan p — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:46:12 -0000

I resemble that remark, coming from a "small cap" blog that has seen stuff re-appear elsewhere a few times ;-)

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

alan p — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:44:11 -0000

@ Louis - nice bit of analysis - now, since you are "in the groove" analysis wise ;-) , it would be interesting to test another two hypotheses - ie that Techmeme story origination has narrowed over the 3 years to a smaller subset of both (i) contributors and (ii) storylines.

(I suspect that (i) causes (ii) as well )

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

omerhorvitz — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:52:29 -0000

Cool. Another note: to see beyond the first 1,000 results of a high-yield query, simply "break" the query into date-restricted chunks; John Naughton of the Observer had the first iPhone post:

http://techmeme.com/search/...[01/01/05+TO+01/01/07]&wm=false&start=60

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Mark Krynsky — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:31:46 -0000

Interesting info. I decided to check on Lifestreaming which had it's first mention on Aug 7, 2007 in a minor story about a Firefox add-on. I had been writing about Lifestreaming since Feb of 07, and others wrote about it before me. I'm not too sure what that says except that some stuff can build under the radar for quite some time before reaching Techmeme.

I also, I wrote a review of Profilactic in August of 07 which is about 8 months before the mention you list above. So Techmeme is a great service, but I think to find some breaking early adopter moves you need to consider looking elsewhere. There are many new services that trickle stuff up much quicker nowadays.

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Corvida Raven — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:19:10 -0000

Then how about how many of these networks and sites gave credit to their original source (if there was one)?

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Louis Gray — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:38:29 -0000

Thanks Gabe. This has been updated in the post now, showing both Twttr and Twitter. Good catch.

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

GabeRivera — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:29:07 -0000

Cool. One note: Twitter was initially called "Twttr" and Biz Stone (of Twitter) had the first post: http://techmeme.com/search/...

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Louis Gray — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:33:01 -0000

No problem. #1, I knew who you meant, and #2, I endured plenty of Lois comments in elementary school, and am therefore, immune to it.

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Ben Metcalfe — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:31:12 -0000

sorry, I meant "Louis" of course. Mis-spelling someone's name is particularly embarrassing, sorry.

Been Metclafe

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Louis Gray — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:30:52 -0000

Ben, thanks for the note. You may not have broken the Twitter news, but according to Techmeme, you were the first one to mention it and have that post reach Techmeme.

See here: http://www.techmeme.com/sea...

If I missed one, I'm happy to update.

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Ben Metcalfe — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:28:51 -0000

Hey Lois,

I can't believe I was the first person to break the news about Twitter, in fact I know I'm not. But great work none the less - and interesting and original idea for a post!

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

Louis Gray — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:16:25 -0000

This isn't claiming "importance", per se. It's _very_ likely in some cases that a story may have been broken at a different source, often a smaller blog, but it took somebody like TechCrunch, RWW, Valleywag, etc. to push the item to Techmeme.

Being first with a story says that the source is a place you can go to find news prior to it being analyzed. Your job, as an analyst, would be the latter half, and that's your role, where you place importance.

Re: louisgray.com: Scooped: Who Brought the Story to Techmeme First?

jeremiah owyang — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:11:08 -0000

One has to ask, why is breaking the news first important? Isn't it more important if it tells us what it means?