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Blog addicts overwhelmed by information may have found their savior.

Memeorandum http://www.memeorandum.com/ , which started with a focus on political blogs in 2004 and launched a technology version http://tech.memeorandum.com/ just weeks ago, aims to be the automated newspaper of the online world.

It attempts to solve the problem of information overload with a few smart algorithms that constantly track the hot topics in tech and politics blogs.

However, it’s not just the Google News http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn of the blog world, since in addition to automatically tracking the top stories of the day, it also highlights the conversations between bloggers and mainstream media about each topic.

Gabe Rivera, the 32-year-old programmer who quit his job at Intel to found the site, says he built Memeorandum thinking of the "live web as an editor."

"If you read blogs, you know that there is this conversation and that some articles are the talk of the day, and other posts have important things to say about those," Rivera said. "If you built graphs in your mind of what the talk looks like, I think it looks like what I’ve done. I get the sense (Memeorandum) is just a natural representation of what is already going on."

By Ryan Singel

Full Story: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69288,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

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Bloggers will interpret news — for a fee

By Frank Bajak, Associated Press

Bloggers live or die by their wits — and that especially includes those who try to make a business of it.

No one is as acutely aware of that as Mike Masnick, chief executive of Techdirt Inc., a 12-person corporate intelligence service best known for its no-holds-barred public Web journal, or blog, that comments continuously on tech industry developments.

Masnick’s 5-year-old enterprise, which grew out of an idea he developed while a student at Cornell in the 1990s, distills and interprets tech news for such corporate customers as Volkswagen AG and VeriSign Inc.

Now, the Belmont, Calif., company has a new customized service that Masnick dubbed InfoAdvisor because it delivers tailored Web feeds from news outlets and blogs pertinent to a customer’s interest.

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-10-20-blogging-fee_x.htm

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