A Quick Look at Megite

Posted on February 19, 2006 No Comments

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Last night, I posted a bit about my lack of love for tech.memeorandum.com. Perhaps with just a wee too much hyperbole, but yeah… substitue “altering what we read” for “altering our fate” and we’re probably more in the right vicinity. Too much like an amplified feedback loop.

From that article, I received a comment from “Matthew” who appparently is the Megite developer and he invited me to give them a look. Well, gee, when do I ever say no to an invite? So, this morning, I gave Megite a glance.

First, a bit from the site about what they are/do:

Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what’s happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs.

Ok, that’s the elevator pitch. The Technology View is pretty decent and not quite as self-reinforcing as memeorandum’s seems to be. Or maybe I just liked the fact that there were more source names that I haven’t met before. Granted, that damned party is still top news… but I guess when every A-lister writes about the same thing there’s really no way around that, the link lovin’ is just too much for any blog oriented news source.

I took Matthew up on the invitation to send an OPML file and he created a Personalized Megite view for Solo Technology. Now how fun is that? Essentially, it takes a (subset) of my daily reads and makes a nice little news page for me. This might become my new read while sipping coffee before leaving the house. The interesting wrinkle is the digg feed — because of what bubbles up from digg, I get some pretty odd/interesting stuff percolating through my personalized news!

But hey, I like this way better than my attempts at tweaking Google News. Although…. it’d be rather slick to add some Google News feeds to my opml and kinda of combine a few worlds. Interesting notion.

Tags: blog, google, google-news, megite, Memeorandum, news

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