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TechMeme continues to be the news aggregator I check multiple times per day to keep up on tech news.
Michael Arrington, TechCrunch in 2009's "Products I Can't Live Without" (see also 2008, 2007, and 2006.   (1/4/09)

Many of us in the tech community know and love Techmeme, a tech news aggregation site. For finding the newest tech stories that people are writing about, there's simply nothing better
VentureBeat   (11/28/08)

Rivera's Techmeme has fast become the tech news source of record…
BusinessWeek , from "The 25 Most Influential People on the Web"   (9/29/08)

My desert island RSS feed would be Techmeme, which is a pretty good way to get a bird's eye view of what's going on in the tech sphere.
Ryan Block, Former Engadget Editor-in-Chief   (6/5/08)

Techmeme is well known amongst tech bloggers and readers, quite simply because it's second to none in keeping up with tech news.
Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb   (12/26/07)

TechMeme is brilliant.
Jason Calacanis, founder, Mahalo; cofounder, Weblogs, Inc.   (10/10/07)

… TechMeme brilliantly unearths the hottest news stories.
Kyle Monson, PC Magazine   (8/27/07)

… Techmeme, the best aggregator of technology news …
Nick Denton, Founder and Publisher, Gawker Media   (6/5/07)

Let's just say that TechMeme is one of the first sites I check in the morning when I get up — and I keep checking it all day until I go to bed.
Pete Rojas, Engadget and Gizmodo Founding Editor (in remarks to Beet.TV)   (5/13/07)

… the technology underlying Techmeme — and sister sites WeSmirch, Memeorandum, and Ballbug — may prove to be the most powerful way to harness the blogosphere's investigative power.
PC World, from "The 50 Most Important People on the Web"   (3/5/07)

Over the past decade, I've seen a lot of search tools that were supposed to transform my life. Few of them have. But Techmeme was one of those.
Danny Sullivan, founder and editor, Search Engine Land   (1/17/07)

I am an unabashed TechMeme fan. … TechMeme's accuracy, clustering, timeliness and scannability make it an essential service …
Dan Farber, CNET News Editor in Chief   (1/4/07)

Techmeme &hellip continues to draw me in many times a day because of the quality of the stories or posts and the associated links to other blogs.
Rob Hof, BusinessWeek   (11/26/06)

Look no further than memeorandum, the site that aggregates the hottest topics on the Web each day.
Vaughn Ververs, CBS News   (8/12/06)

… a good news filter can help you zero in on the news you care about. … Techmeme is among the best of these services.
Ryan Singel, PC World   (6/23/06)

WeSmirch.com [is] a solid aggregator of celebrity news.
Entertainment Weekly   (6/18/06)

Memeorandum is what Google News should've been.
Doc Searls, protoblogger & Cluetrain Manifesto coauthor   (2/4/06)

Amongst Memetrackers, Memeorandum is Money … a simple, easy to comprehend, user experience.
Om Malik, GigaOM   (2/3/06)

The easiest way to follow this world is via a useful blog-tracking service called tech.memeorandum.
Lee Gomes, The Wall Street Journal   (12/7/05)

Pajama people … you'll never do it as quickly or usefully as Memeorandum, anyway.
Scott Rosenberg, Salon   (11/18/05)

Blog addicts overwhelmed by information may have found their savior.
Ryan Singel, Wired News   (10/21/05)

Rivera may very well have created the algo which will, with the right support, do for news and blogs what Google did for search.
Jay Currie, Tech Central Station   (10/18/05)

I quickly became addicted to checking the site, often multiple times a day, to see what kind of buzz it was picking up in the tech world.
Staci D. Kramer, paidContent.org   (9/12/05)

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Techmeme News

Time-lapse Techmeme!

Posted Sunday, January 6, 2008 3:47AM ET by Gabe Rivera     Permalink

Along with surfacing stories and putting them in context, one of Techmeme's chief functions is providing a kind of visualization for news. Headline size, cluster size, and "Discussion" length all signal the structure of the buzz surrounding a story.

I've always wanted to make a cool, time-lapse view of Techmeme to take this to the next level. So I was very happy to find Amit Agarwal arrive at the idea, and most importantly, pull it off.

Fifty hours in the recent life of Techmeme unfold in a mere 50 seconds in the video available at this link. It's also embedded below, but a little hard to read due to compression, so use the previous link if you're on broadband.

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