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A Suggestion for TechMeme: Split into bigbusiness & grassroots by indexing stock price

I love Techmeme, visit it all the time. But more and more, it seems to be getting stormed by “big” stories from Google or Microsoft, leaving the other happenings of the Tech Blogosphere hanging off the bottom, unnoticed.

So - I have a proposal for Gabe: map story keywords to stock prices. If the dominant keyword in a story (i.e.: Google = GOOG) is publically traded and has a stock price over a certain threshold ($100? $50?), the story and all “discussion” and “related” stories go into BlueChipMeme or BigMeme or something.

That would be a nice, opinion agnostic way of separating out big business vs. grassroots/startups. Dell, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, etc. would be chronicled on one site; startups, opinions, and blogosphere happenings on another.

Plus: its a cool mashup!

EDIT: Another option - keep all stories in the same site, but offer a stock price threshold slider at the top of the page to let readers tailor the stories being displayed to their preferences.

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3 Responses to “A Suggestion for TechMeme: Split into bigbusiness & grassroots by indexing stock price”

d2 | June 1st, 2007 at 2:02 am

i dont think you understand how the stock market works. http://finance.google.com/finance?q=MSFT
Rod | June 1st, 2007 at 8:26 am

The variability determine which site (big or small/zero cap) the company goes on. It changes over time. What’s to understand?
d2 | June 1st, 2007 at 11:42 pm

“So - I have a proposal for Gabe: map story keywords to stock prices.”
Look up microsoft’s stock current price and you should realize why this is a silly idea.