Tech crunch has a little article about Memorandum and Blogniscient. I have tried them both, I didn't actually think they were that great.
I can tell you why I definatly won't be using them. I can't flipping spell their names when I type them out in a web browser][[posterous-content:bEyGetkiDskBgseCmqJD]]Ben Ruedlinger’s [Blogniscient](http://www.blogniscient.com) relaunched [today](http://www.technosight.com/blog/the-new-face-of-blogniscient/) with a completely new look and feel. An old screenshot of the service is [here](http://www.technosight.com/images/blogniscient.jpg).
Blogniscient is a blog news organizer that, like [Memeorandum](http://tech.memeorandum.com), uses a propreitary algorithm for determining what’s hot in the blogosphere at any given time. Unlike [Digg](http://www.digg.com), which creates news items based on user bookmarking and subsequent voting to determine front page items, Blogniscient and Memeorandum are automated.
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