Memeorandum and Kinja; anyone with strong opinions about them, interesting thoughts, better alternatives?
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I find Memeorandum sufficiently useful and interesting as to have blogrolled it some months ago. I also get a fair number of hits from it.
I wasn’t familiar with Kinja, and the front page didn’t intrigue me into spending time further investigating without more reason.
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You might want to tune that thing to allow for people who read and type fast, perhaps?
Never tried Kinja; I like memeorandum a good deal, since there’s a human element to it. The aggregators that are fully automated are interesting, but often random and easy to game.
So is it pure coincidence that I suddenly, in the last fifteen minutes, started getting hits from Kinja, where someone slotted a bunch of my most recent posts into the “Conservative” slot?
Which quite amuses me, although I have no objection; as I frequently point out, it’s a near-daily occurence for me to be called, by different people, in the same day, a socialist, a libertarian, a flaming liberal, a war-mongering conservative, a radical, an anti-war peacenik wimp, someone who hates Bush, and obvious Bush supporter,a communist, and so on, and so forth.
All of which simply proves that many people are just dying to fit other people into simple-minded slots based on a minute’s consideration.
I’d be curious to see the reaction of some of those looking forward to my rousing “conservatism” reading streams of posts from me pointing out the absurdities in many attacks on Richard Clarke, my pointing out the unsupportable assertions of members of and supporters of the Bush Administration, and other such material in the linked posts.
Which is more fun to contemplate, really, than were I slotted as a “liberal.” Although then the readers would get red-faced at my luke-warm defense of the Iraqi intervention, my attacks on Michael Moore and John Pilger and their ilk, and so on and so forth.
The simple pleasures are the best.
Wow, weird. First I read a post by that communist reactionary Gary Farber, and then I managed to post before that message was posted. I’m off to go see if I have ant other magic powers.
“You might want to tune that thing to allow for people who read and type fast, perhaps?”
Nothing I can do about it; it comes from the site and I can’t find a button to tweak it. IOW, “Tell your troubles to TypePad – the chaplain’s gone over the hill.”
Moe
I say again, ‘eh’. Aggregators are either automated and the technology is woefully young and imperfect, or hand-sorted and therefore arbitrary and inaccurate.
Good to see that right-wing communist Gary Farber is getting some love, though.
“Good to see that right-wing communist Gary Farber is getting some love, though.”
They stopped after an hour. It was just a quickie.
I feel so used.
Perhaps the editor actually noticed the vile left-wing anti-Bush stuff that they linked to.
And didn’t come back to notice that I’ve just posted about the astounding act of Chris Dodd channelling Trent Lott, which Google, at least, has yet to show a single other person having posted about. This might turn into a real big thing — maybe. But does anyone link to me? No!
However, someone else will undoubtedly catch on tomorrow, and then Instapundit will link to them, and eight billion other people will.
I’ve actually had this happen several times now. Like the time a couple of years ago I posted the information on the “undisclosed location” Cheney goes to, including pictures and its phone number.
Okay, that one actually just wasn’t linked to much. But I thought it rather a scoop. (And, no, I didn’t give away any information that wasn’t actually findable if you looked hard enough; I would not endanger security for the sake of any scoop; why, the time I found the security plans for a nuclear facility still online, I notified the FBI.)
I’m not making any of this up.
I also have fresh Buffy links. Baked hot! Sugary Joss Whedon transcripts!
What do I have to do to get attention?
Oh, yeah, hook up my e-mail again and put out mass announcements.
I just feel so slutty that way.
If it’s any consolation, Gary, that Chris Dodd reference got me to visit your fine blog just now (sorry, I’ve got no blog of my own to give you some linkin’ love). I don’t read Dodd’s quote the way you do (details in your comments section), although I do admit that it’s ambiguous enough to provide ammunition to people who’re looking for some.
I replied to you there. But I’m not looking for material to attack Chris Dodd, or Democrats in general, I assure you.
I merely can’t ignore significant foolishness when I come across it, no matter that it’s from a Democrat and I’m far more a Democrat than not.
I will admit to a slight selfish self-interest, as a blogger, in finding a good story, wherever it lies. But I’m hardly an anti-Democratic partisan.
Oh, look, I’ve become evidence for bias in the media!
But I’m not looking for material to attack Chris Dodd, or Democrats in general, I assure you.
No, and I wasn’t trying to accuse you of that — the last sentence of mine wasn’t directed at you or at anyone in particular, just the usual partisan attack dogs.