Why Not Rename To TechCrunchMeme?

Ready, set, bloviate. So, at the top of TechMeme's lengthy video explanation of how TechMeme works, how to game it, and how TechCrunch will appear at the top even without anybody linking to it. If you have 36 minutes, give it a shot. At the beginning of the first video (yes, the first video, because he's interrupted by a crying baby, something nobody's going to fault him for), Scoble "reverse engineers" TechMeme to find that Rivera has weighted Arrington's blog disproportionately because Arrington is the go-to guy in Silicon Valley.

And that makes TechCrunch, according to Scoble and maybe Rivera, a more credible source than the aforementioned news heavyweights, and yes, dear readers, more than even Murdok, which at one time was sixty-something, a little above where the Washington Post is now, but has since fallen to 83, relegated to the company of comScore, but still beating the crap out of Fortune, ZDNet, and USA Today.

But we shouldn't focus on who is above whom; all that compare-and-dispair stuff is unhealthy. Murdok nor I need all that external validation anyway, we'll just go on strolling through the soft fields hedging our delusions of grandeur and be happy with what Whitney Houston once referred to as The Greatest Love Of All. It'll have to do until Bobby shows up with the pipe.

This isn't a slam at TechCrunch, either, which is a good source of insider-y information, so good that the New York Times' TechMeme-alternative,

Not that it's always a bad thing. It was kind of fun on Matt McAlister blogs about his new gig at The Guardian. Just below that topic, Riley relates news of Chris Pirillo's new community CMS project. Discussion of the topic can be found at

Far be it from anybody to tell Rivera how he should weight the sources that appear on his site. That's up to him and according to whatever contract he's worked out with Arrington*. But it does seem kind of crappy some of these bloggers don't get to tell their own stories because TechCrunch has a louder microphone.  
 
_{*That was said in jest. We have no evidence of backroom (or living room) dealings.}