To whit — I’d just like to point that when I twittered the other day “Woot! Made it to Techmeme” (or something like that) I was merely having a little giggle with myself, and hell, it was an excuse to link to my story on my Twitter. I have in fact “made it” to Techmeme a number of times before. It’s just that in the last few months I have not actually been blogging about things that concern the Silicon Valley Echo chamber, and so I have not actually been on TechMeme for a while. I have instead been rattling around Europe, ferreting out startups who have stories to tell that will never get me onto TechMeme, but who have interesting products I think are worth writing about. So when I did make it to Techmeme (I think with a story about Yammer going down, a Silicon Valley TC50 darling) this pretty much confirmed Ian’s view that Techmeme is not really that interested in stories outside the Valley hubub.

But anyway, I still think it’s a useful service, even if it’s main role is to show that so many tech bloggers write about the thing topics of the day.