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not sure xkcd's approach is the right way to go - it's easy to say
Neat thing here is that you can give feeds negative weights, so you
On Jun 5, 9:42 pm, tom <twake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Combines the lifestreams of twitter with the popularity fest that is
> I registeredhttp://feedcake.comlast week (mostly because I thought
> On Jun 5, 10:32 am, "Jonathan Austin" <j.m.aus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, tom <twake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Got some cunning ideas to stop usr news sites (reddit/digg) going
> > I'd been thinking that linking them in with social networking would give
> > You might find the way XKCD's IRC Channel fixed the low signal to noise
4) people are just show links with high merit (feeds are hidden),
weighted by time I guess.
something uniquely dum, but when lots of people say it, then it means
something.
can give the xkcd's rss feed lots of negative weights to bury it. Not
that i would - tis the best thing about mon, wed & fris...
> Yup, thats about the idea! Here's the hacky bit -
> 1) treat the things that people up/down-mod as their own feed.
> 2) links accumulate merit based on the user's weighting of the feeds
> that carry that link.
> 3) the merit of each feed is adjusted as people up/down-mode a link.
> ...
> profit ;)
> digg.
> it was a cool domain, rather than planning to build something on it).
> Then again the new google app engine will give you half a million page
> loads per month of nothing (if you write in python) ...
> > > downhill when the dum masses find them. The missing concept could
> > > authority - now I just need the google bot net for an afternoon to
> > > scour the web...
> > you:
> > a) Too many buzzwords
> > b) a system where you see the stuff that people like you (ie, whichever
> > stratum of the dumb masses you belong to :P) like. Maybe have a popularity
> > threshold above which a story that none of your friends noticed would hit
> > your 'homepage' too?
> > 'F-igg' could be the name...
> > ratio interesting:http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-n...