TechMeme Getting Manual Intervention. Still Won’t Add Us In

TechMeme is an automated news site that aggregates and ranks breaking tech stories based on incoming link quantity and source power, is changing their ways.
Founder, Gabe Rivera today in a blog post said that the system isn’t working anymore, at least not for certain topics that he uses his algorithms for, like Celebrity News (WeSmirch)
To combat the problem, Gabe has hired Megan McCarthy, formerly of Wired to come on board and manually intervene in how stories appear and rank.
Some think that this is the demise of TechMeme, which could carry over to Google Blog Search and others which use a similar ranking system.
I think the site does fine for now. Adding someone in to manually intervene may make the system better, but is it cost benficial? Probably not. I don’t think this will help the readership.
There is one problem I have with TechMeme though that could use some help. I have emailed Gabe and the sales team about 15 times now to be added into the TechMeme feed and have gotten no response. It has become quite frustrating dealing with the slow process and no-replys coming out of the site.