Techmeme Launches Software-driven, Human-edited Media Blog

Tech news aggregator Techmeme added another aggregator, Mediagazer, to its family today. The new site focuses on media news, combining automated link-gathering with the editorial input of Megan McCarthy, who previously worked for Gawker’s Valleywag and Wired.

The site supplements its Drudge-style collection of links to original stories with a series of sub-links to the ensuing discussion.

McCarthy, in Mediagazer’s introductory post, offers a fairly standard justification for any news aggregator:

Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential media coverage is scattered across numerous web sites at any given moment.

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