<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, memeorandum]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, memeorandum]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/memeorandum http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/memeorandum <![CDATA[Megite: like your favorite news site, but cuter]]> Megite Technology sent a little PR intro touting itself as "the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now." (The news is, of course, gathered from actual newspapers. And knitting blogs.)

The aggregated, user-customized news site sphere is already crowded, what with:

Newsvine: The first rule of Newsvine is, you only talk about Newsvine.
Digg: Entire user base has Lindsay Lohan posters on their walls.
Memeorandum: Of course Dave Winer's comments about your blog post ranked higher than your actual post. That's because he's more important than you.
TailRank: Powered by developer Kevin Burton and eight lattes a day.
reddit: Meets Web 2.0 Color Wheel specs.

Megite managed to be different from all of the above — mostly by mashing them up. By ganking Memeorandum's conversation cloud, TailRank's wide simplicity, Digg's topicality, and reddit's pastel-blue obsession, Megite may have proven the real method for Web 2.0 success: arrive late, check out the crowd, and one-up them all. Maybe it can lure MS blogger Robert Scoble back into the hole.

Megite Technology News [Megite]
The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I m signing off of Memeorandum) [Scobleizer]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=158667&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Specified sucking: How to suck up to seven pundit bloggers]]> Guy Kawasaki sparked a debate by writing "How to Suck Up to a Blogger." Is it ethical to pile schwag and compliments on bloggers? Who the hell cares, it's fun. But it'll take a more careful approach to really win over certain A-list bloggers:

Blogger Site Who should suck up And how
Mike Arrington TechCrunch Web startups Leak your IPO
Om Malik Gigaom More web startups Leak your bankruptcy filing
Robert Scoble Scobleizer Unpopular Microserfs "Robert, your conversations look good naked."
Gabe Rivera Memeorandum Soon-to-be-famous bloggers Link to the high-and-mighty bloggers
Kyle Bunch Blogebrity Not-even-internet-famous bloggers Get Amanda Congdon's phone number
Ryan King and Eran Globen Supr.c.ilio.us Stowe Boyd Buy the next round of beer
Cory Doctorow Boing Boing Everyone who's anyone Send him whuffie
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