Techmeme Gets Moderated

Techmeme, the popular starting page of many tech bloggers to grab breaking technology news, just got more moderated and ‘edited’ as they call it to filter the top content featured on the page.

Announcing the change as Automated news doesn’t quite work, they say

What’s different now is that an additional human editor will carry out changes explicitly to directly improve the mix of headlines on Techmeme. Though the implicit edits conveyed via algorithm outnumber the explicit edits perhaps by 1000 to 1 or more, the impact of the human editor is nonetheless pronounced. What will that effect be? The news will just get faster and more interesting. Obsolete stories will be eliminated sooner while breaking stories will be expedited. Related grouping will improve.

As the about page still says Technmeme is auto-generated through a news-picking software system; now it will just be a little less automated, which will help Techmeme be even more useful to readers. It will prevent stale stories for persisting, bring in the fast breaking news even more faster so that bloggers can link out even more to make it more popular.

Now who do you shout out to when Techmeme is not showing news stories as you expected – Megan McCarthy followed by Omer Horvitz and Gabe Rivera.