Breaking the Techmeme Habit

Techmeme is a great place to stay up-to-date with the current tech news in the blogosphere, showing the most popular and current news items of the day. The site also offers a Leaderboard section which features the current top 100 bloggers and news sources. However, Techmeme is often under fire from bloggers who feel that it doesn't deliver a diverse enough selection of blogs and voices. Whether that's actually true or not is up for debate, but in the meantime, we thought we would look at other ways to stay on top of the the latest news in tech, sans Techmeme.

Blogger Louis Gray recently took an in-depth look at the Techmeme stats and concluded that although the top ten players on command about a third of the attention on the site, but "there is the same amount of room available for those not even in the top 100. With good content, and…

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