Gabe, Maciej and Jason Hirschhorn all have a "ill build the product i want to use every day, feedback and scaling be damned" attitude, and I love it.

I can't stand his personality on Twitter but techmeme is useful. I suspect, as this article touch on, he is not as mean spirited in meat space.

Techmeme mostly has human curation and a little bit of automation, though it is hard to tell from the outside how much that factors in. Human curators also rename article titles to provide a summary of the contents in an attempt to save you a click if you don't want more detailed information.

techmeme is like drudgereport. a small team posting hyperlinks to what you should consider most important.

the river is a chronology http://www.techmeme.com/river

It's done manually. They have editors who select news. You can tip news stories via Twitter.

I am building an engine that might be able to power it. E-mail me (see my profile) and I will be able to help get this off the ground.

Every medium has a tendency to create work about itself, the subject its makers understand the best. Hollywood does La la land. Buzzfeed covers Techmeme. Novelists write novels about novelists writing novels: Misery, The Sportswriter, half of Philip Roth, some of Joyce.