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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.

gaberiviera, memeorandum, stock prices, stocks techmeme

A quick Apple Scandal Update

Yeah, I got taken by Valleywag when Nick wrote this post - “Get out of Apple stock right now.” Starting with the breathless disclaimer that he had sold all of his Apple stock before writing the post, Nick went on to peg Apple as about to be beheaded by regulators.

Anyway, things turned out differently. I wonder if Nick regrets that stock sale now?

GigaOM wraps it all concisely, summarizing the fact that Steve Jobs seems to have dodged Anderson’s bullet by having a really good quarter. The NYT suggests that Anderson has a grudge to settle - time will tell if Jobs gets dinged with an SEC fine, but whatever the case, it looks like the market has moved on.

Edit: Couldn’t resist: