Categories: OLD Media Moves

Tech blog that uses algorithms to find news

Claire Cain Miller writes in Monday’s New York Times about Techmeme, a technology news site that uses algorithms to help find the latest tech news.

Miller writes, “But Techmeme also turns to humans to filter the ever-growing number of articles and blog posts published online each day, a method that is being used by Mediagazer, a new sister site for media industry news.

“Techmeme could become a model for other industries as a useful way to harness the increasingly unwieldy Web and arm readers who are preparing for business meetings or cocktail parties. Techmeme, a start-up company based in San Francisco, also publishes aggregation sites for politics, celebrity gossip and baseball, and hopes to expand to topics like business or energy.

“Aggregation works best for ‘industries where ideas can change people’s view of things, and there’s money on the line,’ said Gabe Rivera, Techmeme’s founder.”

Read more here.

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