Gabe Rivera's robot army (producing Memeorandum and Tech.memeorandum) has expanded to cover celebrity gossip news in the form of a
site called WeSmirch. The Memeorandum formula appears to be a secret-sauce
of link tracking blended with "authority" and some editorial "wisdom." It's an excellent way
to find what is the hot in at least some parts of the online world.
Celeb gossip makes sense. Will
Rivera add any more sites on different topics before selling or launching ads? I don't believe that sports,
science, market analysis or food (the most likely topics in my mind) would work well with the Memeorandum formula
because I believe those blogospheres don't engage in nearly as much cross linking and the subtopics in many of them are
of less universal interest than is the case with tech. So I'll bet that this is it and now someone will buy all
three blogs. Any guesses who?
1. Hi Marshall -- ah, very insiteful. For some reason, alot of people think this process can extend infinitely to all topic domains in 2006, either asking me to do something that won't work, or building "competing" systems to cover other areas that in turn suck.
Still I think there are quite a few new directions to take my system, even if it's true that it will be the last of its kind. (Oh, and i don't think it is, either!)
Posted at 1:28PM on Mar 14th 2006 by Gabe