The grand old American pastime is colliding with new-fangled meme-tracking. Just in time for baseball’s opening day (and a freak snowstorm in our neck of the woods), Memeorandum mastermind Gabe Rivera has launched Ballbug, a buzz-tracking vertical site for diamond news.

Ballbug works much like its predecessors, the U.S. politics-focussed original Memeorandum, tech.memeorandum (for tech buzz) and WeSmirch (for celebrity gossip). It scans relevant blog feeds for recent posts that have collected a fair amount of links, and those are placed in the ‘new item’ area at the tophand right. More links move the most popular posts to the middle of the page, where the headline appears in a large font and related sites are linked underneath. Ballbug reloads with the latest buzz every five minutes, and older items migrate down to the bottom of the page and eventually into memeo-blivion.

While you can enter a date and time to see an archived ‘snapshot’ of what stories were carried on Ballbug at any particular moment, we wish the sites under the Memeorandum umbrella would consider a search bar. We know, we know, that’s what the Technoratis and Ice Rockets of the world are for, but…just please think about it.

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