5 Minutes on The Verge: Techmeme's Gabe Rivera

A few years ago, a lot of tech news sites and blogs focused on, and used, Digg as one metric of success. Techmeme has essentially replaced Digg in that respect. How do you feel about being "the new Digg"?

In many ways, Reddit is the "the new Digg", but yeah, I can see how for tech news publishers, hitting Techmeme is as an important goal as making Digg used to be. My feelings on this are mixed. On the plus side, Techmeme's readers benefit since publishers are motivated to produce the kind of reporting and analyses they need. On the down side, it creates a lot of work for us. Most of the "support" type emails we get are from publishers, not regular readers, and yet publishers represent a tiny minority of our readership.

Do you ever think about doing original content? Do you think news curation is more important than creation / reporting of it?

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