New Topic Focused News Aggregator from Techmeme's Founder and Developer Gabe Rivera: Hello MediaGazer!
It's likely that many of you use Techmeme, a service that aggreates tech news from many sources on the Internet. Techmeme was originally compiled 100% algorithmically. However, since December, 2008 Megan McCarthy, has served as the ditor. Making the decisions about some of what goes on Techmeme.
Today, Techmeme Founder and Developer, Gabe Rivera, McCarthy, and the other members of the Techmeme team launched another aggregated news site (aka vertical). This one brings together content about the media industry and is named, MediaGazer.
Finally, often overlooked are the other topic-aggregation services that Techmeme provides:
Btw, mobile versions are available for all of these sites. You can find the links on the lower right side of the page.
The two mobile versions of MediaGazer 1) For SmartPhones and for more basic types of phones
Finally, both a cool and useful way to "see" the headlines (in reverse chronological order) as they make there way into one of the services is to take a look at the "river" version also located, lower right side of the page. Here's the MediaGazer River.
If you've never visited Techmeme or any of these resources, they are well worth your time. They are also excellent tools to share with users who have interest in any of the topics covered.
She [Megan McCarthy] said she doesn’t know how many sources are included in the media algorithm but the list builds out automatically as new sources are discovered. Why media? It fits their requirements: “lots of new coverage every day, lots of stories revolving around the same issues, and a variety of subtopics (video, media industry consolidation, blogs, future of journalism, newspapers, etc.) that people discuss.”
As for staying standalone, “We’ve never raised any money—everything is bootstrapped. There’s no investors, and no outside pressure from them. We’re still building, and it’s a lot easier to do grow when you’re not beholden to a larger corporation.
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