{"id":2082,"date":"2008-01-06T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/06\/video-interlude-techmeme-time-lapse\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T14:41:39","slug":"video-interlude-techmeme-time-lapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/06\/video-interlude-techmeme-time-lapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Video interlude: Techmeme time-lapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you follow technology blogs, Techmeme soon becomes almost irreplaceable — it’s like a front page for the blogosphere, one that changes almost minute-by-minute to show where the big fires of commentary are (for better or worse), and where the small sparks that could touch off a new one are coming from. It’s almost biological in a way, and so it’s fascinating to see Amit Agarwal’s time-lapse video<\/a> of Techmeme, taken over a 50-hour period and condensed into 50 seconds of video.<\/p>\n

It looks an awful lot like those Time-Life documentary shorts that show ants in the desert erecting a giant anthill with tiny scraps of fluff and lint (and critics might say the fluff and lint part is right on the money). So what is Techmeme.com building? Consensus, I think. It’s like a continuously running poll. Sometimes the questions are ephemeral, and sometimes they are pretty important. In any case, it’s fun to watch.<\/p>\n

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If you follow technology blogs, Techmeme soon becomes almost irreplaceable — it’s like a front page for the blogosphere, one that changes almost minute-by-minute to show where the big fires of commentary are (for better or worse), and where the small sparks that could touch off a new one are coming from. It’s almost biological … <\/p>\n

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