Techmeme’s Algorithm Is Weird

So, I write a longish post (see Facebook Apologists Miss The Point: Facebook Isn’t The Future) in which I spend the first 50% discussing a piece by Mike Arrington (see The Media Attacks On Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Are Getting Out Of Hand), and then in one paragraph I mention posts by Scoble, VentureBeat and Silicon Alley Insider.

Somehow, when my post shows up in the Techmeme stack around 10:15am this morning, it’s not directly linked with Arrington’s post — which seems most logical, and which was the first one cited, instead it shows up linked to the Silicon Valley Insider piece about Zuckerberg’s leaked IMs.

This is baffling to me.

Can anyone (Gabe Rivera?) explain this?

Update on Friday, May 14, 2010 at 10:38AM

And then ten minutes later, my piece is attached to the Mike Arrington post. Maybe it’s self-correcting? Or did a human editor get involved?