Before reading this post, Tailrank was the only one of these meme trackers that I had heard of, even though I had never visited it. Following your cue, I opened up a Firefox tab to Techmeme. And sure enough, the first article was about something I hadn’t seen anywhere else. Thanks for the tip. I’m adding Techmeme to my bookmarks.

Hey Gabe!
I actually found it the opposite. This week, there were some things I thought were big stories that I’d find directly reading some of the blogs I visit, then like six hours later, I’d finally see them working up Techmeme. Normally, it’s often felt the opposite. So I wondered if maybe you were tweaking something.
I wish I could remember the examples, of course! That would help. I’ll keep an eye on things and if I notice, will send you an email.
Overall, it still remains great. Meme tracker isn’t my term but one I take to me some service that lets you understand the memes or themes or big discussions happening on the web in a particular moment. That’s what Techmeme rocks for me with — giving me that at a glance. When I was on vacation last week and before, I could pop into Techmeme once a day and with stuff easily.

So Techmeme is usually rather zippy about big stories, but can be leisurely with items of second-order importance. Maybe there’s just been a preponderance of the latter these days? Not sure, but I’ll look a little closer at this.
What’s a “meme tracker”?