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What are these people commenting on? I always feel like there's not much going on on the Internet. That story probably should have mentioned that Om Malik was

• bootload 19y ago
  "... What are these people commenting on? ..." In short, people as individuals do not scale as well as software. Read this piece scoble wrote about the effect of techmeme - an automated blog link gathering tool & ranking tool - has on individual people who grab themes from the Internet and add value to these themes through writing & money through advertising ~ http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/21/reverse-engineering-techmeme/ http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/21/reverse-engineering-techmem... The sting for companies is trying to keep up with a software system is that the systems keep improving. No matter how many people they throw at gathering content & commenting, they cannot compete. To me it's a statement of how tech-savy the parent companies really are.