- I don't think that your site is much like The Drudge Report.
Also, if you are so interested in news for Linux, please just keep it as one of the main topics.
Perhaps you need a learning filter that catches words that are too common and filters them out.
Overall, awesome project. Keeping an eye on it!
2. Honest feedback: Your category titles seem straight out of a topic modeling paper (see: David Blei). That is to say, as a fellow computer scientist, I get why they are what they are... but they're not very good.
But yeah, awesome, bookmarked and buckled in for the long haul.
Other than that, it looks alright.
Good luck
Worth thinking about how this could even power 'slower' news (a.k.a. Economist-style) by utilizing the algorithm to find out 'what' is important over a period of time and then later finding the best writing about the topic and highlighting that.
To answer your parenthetical question: not very well. Since articles are sorted based on the weight of their feed, and since I only show the first few articles for each topic, articles from feeds with lower weights may rarely appear. They will, however, contribute to the overall weight of the topic and force it into the top ten.
A summary of the issue (eg."Google buys Zagat" instead of "Google, Zagat") would be helpful when scanning.
I agree with the other commenter about having a "more" button.
The thing that bugs about techmeme is they make it appear as if the tech word consists of a handful of companies (Apple, FB, Twitter, Google, MS), and you basically have no other news outside of that.
Your site has that, to a lesser degree, but its still there. I see 2 google stories, 2 twitter stories, 2 yahoo stories. It might be useful to compile a small list of company names and group on company name if you see it appear twice.
I made this: http://tech.rawsignal.com
Maybe we can share tips on algos?
I suggest showing complete news titles, without cuttting them off with ...
Idea is great, keep experimenting with the UI.
I would remove "via", it's polluting the page.
EDIT: And maybe add the timeframe selector. Since it's a news site, it would be cool to see the trending news of the last hour, for instance.