Comments on: Rookiememe – the next killer Web app

By: Blog ranking discussion takes on life of its own | Broadcasting Brain

Blog ranking discussion takes on life of its own | Broadcasting Brain — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:07:10 +0000

[...] a team of people who were working on something similar to what I described in my semi-satirical post about a fictional Rookiememe, so they’re on to something and more power to [...]

By: Rankings Suck, So Now What? - Regular Geek

Rankings Suck, So Now What? - Regular Geek — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:34:53 +0000

[...] what do we need? Mark Dykeman has a great satirical post about RookieMeme. The idea was to have a way for new blogs to get a chance to be seen. The comments on the blog and [...]

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:00:05 +0000

Yes, I keep forgetting, really

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:22:52 +0000

Thanks! Well, it may seem odd at first, but as you said, so many unique and amazing stuff go unnoticed because we constantly consume what I like to call popular mediocrity. I know we all hit up Techmeme, some probably refresh the page every hour or so – but really, do we care all that much about iPhone sales figures? Or AOL mergers? Or Yahoo-MSFT couldn't-care-less exchange of love letters?

Well, we'll see how it works out

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:16:55 +0000

OK, I was only about 25% serious when I wrote this post, so this is really, really weird. But good luck to you!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:53:15 +0000

Just the kind of post any stealth start-up worries about

Mark, you've described a great concept. In fact, we've been working on something similar for a few months now. Of course I grabbed rookiememe.com – check it out.

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:37:23 +0000

It's all a hypothetical exercise at this time.

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:01:51 +0000

Yes, it should filter – but it will definitely be the unique content (unless it is an automated Wordpress greetings post, of course). So I'm still afraid we'll have to read endless self-representations again and again over there.

But maybe I'm wrong, if any developer chooses to code something this complex, hopefully they will also find out how to distinguish news from everything else.

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:06:01 +0000

Ah, the paradoxical power of the Rookiememe. But, to your point, the hypothetical Rookiememe should filter out the “hello world” stuff.

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:49:33 +0000

Excellent idea, definitely, this will ensure that we actually can discover really new content. But the problem I see here is that the application will never really take off since no tech blog could bring it any popularity because we won't cover it (because we can't hit the non-existing leaderboard or get any traffic from it). And why do I have a feeling that the app will be cluttered with “Hello world, this is my first post”?