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Well put.
- making it easier to post "breaking" news stories
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Early on, when our system was less technically refined, the clearest path toward improvement involved simply iterating algorithmic development. Later, as the automation reached a certain degree of maturity, we recognized that direct editing could now improve news results by leaps and bounds. Though our roadmap contains a number of novel future algorithmic enhancements, introducing editing now appears to be a no-brainer.
The person in charge of editing Techmeme is the recently hired Megan McCarthy who has worked for Valleywag and Wired in the past (Valleywag has a post about her "greatest hits"). Although Rivera says that
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