Gabe Rivera, proud pappa of Tech.Memeorandum and a growing number of other automated memetrackers on various topics, today launched one on baseball.  Ballbug tracks the most linked to posts about baseball around the athleto-blogo-sphero.  When will he stop launching these kinds of sites on various topics?  He seemed to indicate to me in a rather cryptic comment here awhile ago that it couldn't go on forever, but he wasn't about to stop either. 

I'd like to take this opportunity too to say that I don't think these kinds of sites, which are fully automated, can be described using the same word as we use for sites like Digg.com - where storyies rise to the top because of human votes inside the system.  The word "memetracker," is I believe, misused when it's applied to Digg and other systems directly influenced by humans.  Plus those types of sites are tracking, if anything, specific URLs more than general memes defined by URLs grouped together - aren't they?  That's my two cents on the subject.