Shelley Powers writes a post titled The Testosterone Meme where she states four major issues she has with memeorandum.
The second issue Shelley raises:
Second, if you’re a woman writing about technology, don’t expect to show up in the site; when you do, expect to see your weblog disappear from view quickly. This site is for the big boys only.
The problem with this particular issue is that I found her article on memeorandum. It’s a headline and it’s been up all night.
My four issues with Memeorandum:
1. No transparency
2. No user input
3. No user customisation
4. Too damn American
Apart from that, I find it addictive and now know more about top level US politics than I really should.
I think Memeorandum is a proof of concept waiting for someone to turn it into a franchise business.
http://tinfinger.blogspot.com/2005/10/critique-of-memeorandum.html
Hehe – yep, I spotted the irony of that post. On the other hand, it is generally easier to get on Memeorandum at the weekends, since less people post then.
Paul – is Tinfinger going to create a franchise around the Memeorandum concept? I know that Tinfinger is positioning in that space, but I don’t know much about it.
1) Too Male
2) Too American
3) Too boring
Memeoranum is heading towards my probation folder unless it gets more interesting and effective a lot faster. Cutting out crappy links to Web 2.0 articles would be a good start.
Of course, anything that starts with the assumption that there is some kind of A-list has to be broken – the definition of A-list seems to be self-serving, self-referential, self-important and American. Self-abuse springs to mind too.
A belated answer to your question, Pete: short answer is no; long answer is Gabe should not be worried by us really as though our function sets may end up overlapping somewhat, our approach is different.