If you were going to sell yourself, I doubt it would be for $100.

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I’ve been following this thread and I attempted to try Blogniscient myself.

Blogniscient has some *serious* usability issues making it less useful than Memeorandum. The most important of these is the inability to find RSS feeds easily (simply unacceptable for a service like Blogniscient).

You can find the rest of my comments on Blogniscient on my blog (http://eddorre.com/posts/351.aspx).

Memeorandum has been OK, but it only covers tech and politics and it separates them into two pages. I like what I see of Blogniscient so far: it covers a variety of topics on one page. Though I don’t like the way they’re separated by topic; it would be nice if there were an option to just see all the links mixed together regardless of subject so I know what’s really hot.

If my two favorite aggregators are indeed gone forever, Blogniscient might be an OK substitute.

A few thoughts.

1. I apologize if I haven’t answered your emails. I’m a one man shop and I get hundreds of emails a day. I cannot read all of them. It’s something that I beat myself up over constantly because I feel that if someone takes the time to email me, I should take the time to read it and write back. I may hire someone to help out at TechCrunch, but given that it is a zero revenue site I don’t know when that will happen.

2. TechCrunch is not an objective site. It’s all about my opinions. I’ve never claimed otherwise.

3. I apologize if I did not give your client a stand alone review. To be fair, I don’t think it deserves a stand alone review and is interesting, at this time, only as part of the broader discussion of how memeorandum is changing the web. I wrote my opinion of the service, and gave what I believe is a quite favorable review. In my opinion, and I repeat, in my opinion, memeorandum is a far superior service.

4. I have an open house here in Atherton and I invite many people to stay. During the web 2.0 conference people were on the floors, on the couches, in the bedrooms. One of those people is a VC with a $30m net worth. I didn’t include him in my top VCs post. He’s pissed. He’ll get over it.

Gabe has stayed here, and he has grown to be a friend. This has developed after I’ve gotten to know memeorandum, and quite frankly one of the reasons I like hanging out with him is that he’s so damn smart. There is no nepotism in my posts on memeorandum.

I have no financial or other interest in memeorandum, nor have I been paid to write anything about memeorandum or any other company.

5. I think you should look in the mirror. You are a paid consultant to blogniscient and this wasn’t disclosed in your early posts, or in the comments you blanketed the blogospere with.

I am launching a company called edgeio in the near future. I’ve posted, once, on edgeio, and I fully disclosed that I am a founder. I also said I won’t be posting on it much, if at all, in the future.

6. If people like Robert Scoble and Dave Winer think Memeorandum is great, perhaps it is simply because it is.

7. I think you owe me an apology for this open letter, regarding your claims of a conflict of interest.