Hacking Techmeme

Fred Wilson recording the trend we have also noticed, ie Techmeme is moving more towards being "GadgetMeme" (I read it on Techmeme):

We might as well call Techmeme news.apple.com many days. Or news.facebook.com or news.google.com or news.twitter.com. Techmeme is obsessive about the top companies and top stories of the moment.

He compares it with Hacker News, which takes a wider range of inputs and not all are from the main megaphones.

Way more stories above the fold. Way more diversity. Very geeky. But you get plenty of stories about non tech stuff and the stories move rapidly through the system. And not one story about Apple or Facebook in the top 20 right now.
I use both multiple times per day, but I really love what Hacker News is doing and I struggle with Techmeme which feels a bit like an echo chamber on many days.

I read both too, and I'm a great fan of Techmeme - I think it is the innovative newsform of the 2.0 cycle as it was a new media aggegator before most Noo Meedja aggregators could spell the word. And it, like many of the greater tech blogs, is steadily going more mainstream in its sourcing (just look at the sort of stories that were on top of Techmeme 5 years ago when it was polling blogs far more). That's where the volume, advertising revenues, etc etc are, after all.

But this is all part of the industry evolution as it grows - look at any Tech meedja index, and gadget news is always the top traffic item whether its dead tree magazines or blogs. Personally I'm not interested in tactical gadget news, so just like they split off Mediagazer, I wonder if its possible to curate GadgetMeme as a different "online magazine" to Techmeme. It's certainly big enough to have two streams now.