Gabe Rivera has been at the vanguard of technology driven journalism through sites like Techmeme and Mediagazer. At a recent event, he discussed the limits of algorithms and the need for human curation.
While social sites drive an increasing portion of traffic to content publishers, email — the original social network — is responsible for 70 percent of total shares and 48 percent of visits generated by shares, according to data collected by link tracker Tynt.
It took just two years for Gabe Rivera to have four verticals, including tech “front page” Techmeme, running off his algorithm for discoveri…
