Techmeme and Its Down Falls

Techmeme is normally the first stop for tech geeks to see what is happening around the blogosphere. The site was long time in development and is the brain child of Gabe Rivera. I know all the basic principles behind the site and have seen this all explain too many time by Robert Scoble. Im really writing this post to see where the site can go from here. Can the site get any better or really improve on what Gabe is doing at the moment?

After looking at the site, I have never really liked the design. This is the main area in which the site can instantly improve. Due to the current design it is very hard to keep track of all the news stories on the site, this is due to the frequency of articles added to the service and the only way to use Techmeme efficiently is to add it to you RSS reader.

The other area in which Techmeme lacks inspiration is in terms of finding new content through the service and acknowledging the correct author who broke the story. Over the last year on Techmeme I have noticed it is a lot harder to find new websites that I have never heard of. This is mainly due to Gabe only being humanly able to track so many feeds. If this is not rectified i can see Techmeme moving closer and closer to services such as Google News, etc.

Finally, I always see people asking how can they get on Techmeme? Answer, No one knows. At this stage it is nearly impossible to get on Techmeme at all. The options are to get linked to by Techcrunch or just dont ever expect to get on Techmeme. I totally understand Gabe is only human, but there really needs to be a list of who can be shown on Techmeme and some way to actually get acknowledged to gain access to Techmeme. For example when Techmeme was developed they were tracking the top bloggers, but a few of them have disappeared off the radar, but never been replaced.

So what would you change over at Techmeme? And is there any other service that will be a Techmeme killer?

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