Techmeme is getting weird

This is one of the few times that I have looked at techmeme and basically walked away thinking “what is all this stuff”. It is not only the quality of the posts, but what the posts are talking about. If there is anyway to track bloggeria, then techmeme is it. What happens though when techmeme fails, and there are really no decent meme’s to follow along with.

There is a lot to be said for following the bouncy ball of things that we love to blog about, but when the meme’s fail, it makes the lot of a blogger much tougher. Alternative sources of information are needed, or generally the blogger is then obligated to whine about the lack of info on new stuff, and being able to jump on the train.

While Google app engine may be cool, it will be better to see what people are going to do about it. Yes, it is another nokia phone, yes the same Iphone killer….nothing from Scoble he must be on a plane, Read Write Web, ohh there they are, and all the rest of the folks jumping on the band wagon and positively cooing over the new toy from Google.

While in general this is somewhat fun to watch, after a year of running a tech blog, what is interesting is that we, all of us seem to be following each other as a small covert group of people who try to and often succeed at influencing what is happening in technology.

What we don’t see is when someone thinks that the system is crappy. Anyone ever do a negative review? I think we are getting beyond ourselves, and the moment we loose the ability to say no, that is really a bad product, or the meme just isn’t working, then we really need to step back and ask ourselves what we are doing.

If we want to be responsible journalists, then we also have to talk about what is bad, not just gush over the latest new toy. Maybe that is what we need to start looking at as bloggers, and call it a day when the show is really bad.

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