Techmeme is a BlogRank

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TechMeme is an entirely automated web service that looks at what bloggers are talking about, and linking to, and decides what is news based on that analysis. In many ways it is an anti-Digg. Humans have no say in what appears on the TechMeme homepage, other than by blogging about it.

It is one of the more important technical innovations that has come out of the new web.