You cannot request inclusion, their software automatically includes or excludes you based on a variety of factors. The simplest way to get added to a discussion is to have an included site link to you, then you link to a hot discussion. For example, I was surprised to find my site (in sig) on techmeme a few months back. The reason? I was linked to by gizmodo, then I linked to another site that was front-paged. This caused me to show up in the Discussion area. To get your site to be a news topic, you typically need to have other included sites linking back to you. Here's more advice from the creator of TechMeme. You could also become a sponsor if you don't think you'll write an article that will be linked to by lots of large sites. Anita