A weekend is never complete until we have a Bitchmeme. Now Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera even takes to announcing them on Twitter, something which I am particularly proud of.

Instigator of the latest Bitchmeme, Mark Evans, doesn’t feel it’s really a Bitchmeme because his story has value — to which I say, Bitchmeme does not discriminate. No one said a Bitchmeme always has to originate with something stupid; I feel like it’s just some topic that gets everyone all in a tizzy and eventually has them talking in circles — and perhaps most importantly, gets some people talking out of their asses.

As such, today’s “Original Blog Thought” is a Bitchmeme.

It’s actually not all that different either from a Bitchmeme that took place in January, started by Steve Rubel’s post on the “Lazysphere”. The key issue? Is the blogosphere becoming too much of a “me too” factory of posts on the latest tech news, and should it be about more original ideas?

And actually it’s technically not even Mark Evans who started this Bitchmeme. As Mark mentions, it comes from a post Ed Bott wrote last week in defense of another of his posts, which I labeled as a Bitchmeme in and of itself. This is really all the same extended Bitchmeme that has just taken periodic breaks.

Mark Evans lays out some very good reasons as to why we see this me-too blogging. Others such as Dave Winer, are the ones who really turn this into a Bitchmeme by using Evan’s post as a launching pad for dictating what should be written about on blogs.

That’s not to say all Winer’s points are bad, but at the end of the day who is anyone to dictate what anyone else should be writing about?

A lot of folks (myself included) write about the biggest stories in tech on any given day. I’m not sure I see why this is a problem. I try to give readers the story and offer my perspective on it. This is what I like about Techmeme beyond it being a good source of tech news — it’s a good source of various opinions on the tech news. I like knowing what Frederic of The Last Podcast has to say about something — like this Bitchmeme — I also like knowing what writers like Mathew Ingram have to say on an issue. If there is someone not offering anything new, or I don’t care to know their opinions, I simply don’t read it – yet others may disagree with my assessment, and it’s still good to have it all there laid out for a reader to decide.

Of course original thought is important, but not everything has to be 100% original. We would have run out of music and movie plots a long time ago if that were the case.

There are still plenty of bloggers, thousands, millions, out there writing up original content on a daily basis on just about anything you can imagine. If that is what you are looking for, go read that. It really is that simple.

So while it’s good to think about why there is so much me-too blogging going on, I don’t find it particularly useful to bitch about it. But again, that’s just my opinion and maybe others find that to be a good read.

Hell, I got another Bitchmeme post out of it.

For more of those, look here.