ReadBurner: Meme tracker based on Google Reader shared items

Ever with there was a way to track popular news/blog posts by following Google Reader shared item feeds without, you know, subscribing to dozens of feeds? The big problem with link blogs and shared item feeds is that if you subscribe to a bunch, there's a pretty good chance you're going to wind up seeing the same articles over and over. ReadBurner makes it possible to track shared items from some of the blogosphere's opinion leaders without subscribing directly to their blogs.

Here's how it works. Developer Alexander Marktl has taken the shared item feeds from a number of well known bloggers.. ReadBurner examines those feeds and determines which items are being shared the most often. You can sort the list by Currently Popular, Popular This Week, Most Popular All Time, or Most Recent.

ReadBurner is still in pretty early Alpha testing. Up until yesterday the site didn't even have a registered domain. But if you're the sort of person that can't get enough of Techmeme and other news tracking sites, ReadBurner might be worth keeping an eye on.

[via Mashable]

Tags: Google-Reader, linkblog, ReadBurner, RSS, shared-items