Raw

Techmeme's a great idea but unfortunately it really does suffer from the

self-referential (and mutually aggrandising) echo chamber effect of the blogosphere A-list. This tends towards either second-hand advertising of not particularly interesting products or dull arguments over trivia. This isn't untypical:

Wall Street Journal Tries to Re-Write Blogging History, yadda, yadda, There is no "first blogger" — "It's been 10 years since … , blah, blah, Happy birthday blogging? Ten years old, apparently, moan, ORIGINS OF BLOGGING,grumble, Wall Street Journal gets blogging history wrong, smug, blah, Ten years of blogging, or not (and ye olde Web), yadda, The Wall Street Journal is wrong., righteous indignation, Blogging Turns Ten This Year, pff, Not really a blogging birthday, but... As Duncan Riley points out … , oink, Blogging Is 10 Years Old, beep, Happy Blogiversary, says The Wall Street Journal, twang, Will Someone Who Actually Cares About Blogging Please Write the History Of it?, jibber, jibber, The history of blogging founding-myths — based solely on what I …, snore, quack, WSJ and the history of blogs, wibble, Will Someone Who Actually Cares About Blogging Please Write the History Of it?...

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