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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

New Twitter and RSS "Firehose" feeds include all headlines

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:26AM ET by Gabe Rivera     Permalink

High-volume, "complete" RSS feeds are available now for Techmeme, WeSmirch, memeorandum, and Ballbug. For years, the RSS feed for each site has included the day's most important 20-30 headlines, typically those placed "above the fold". Going beyond 30 headlines would overwhelm most subscribers. This selectivity has a downside: headlines don't appear in the RSS feed until they've amassed enough "importance", so the feed seems "slow". Another, more obvious downside: certain news junkies want to see every last headline that appears.

The new "Firehose" feeds introduced today do just that. Any story attaining headline status on Techmeme (which exclude "Discussion" links) will appear in the feed within 5 minutes. This means well over 100 headlines per day for Techmeme Firehose, so casual news readers will want to use the Main feed (i.e. the previous, standard feed) instead.

Twitter accounts for both Main and Firehose feeds are available as well. Users of Twitter, even more than users of RSS readers, tend to favor a more immediate view of events around them, and some have complained about the "slowness" of the existing Techmeme Twitter account (which is based on the Main feed). Following Techmeme Firehose on Twitter will provide the real-time experience these users crave.

The following table summarizes all the relevant URLs:

Firehose RSSFirehose TwitterMain RSSMain Twitter
Techmeme Techmeme Techmeme
Techmeme
WeSmirch WeSmirch WeSmirch
WeSmirch
memeorandum memeorandum
Ballbug Ballbug

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