The Problem with Techmeme (or any meme tracker)

October 15, 2006

I have a problem with Techmeme.

If you read many technical blogs, you have the problem as well.

The problem is post duplication through a variety of sources. Quite often I’ll see something in at least three places, verbatim. Some significant blog post will happen on a tech blog I subscribe to. Then I’ll see it on Techmeme. Then it will come across my aggregator as part of the feed for Scoble’s linkblog.

Really, I only need to see the post once. There’s a lot of smart programmers out there. Google has a few :) Perhaps the fine folks on the Google Reader team could find a way to filter out duplicate posts that are coming from various sources?

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