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oops...forgot one
4) people are just show links with high merit (feeds are hidden),
weighted by time I guess.

not sure xkcd's approach is the right way to go - it's easy to say
something uniquely dum, but when lots of people say it, then it means
something.

Neat thing here is that you can give feeds negative weights, so you
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...

On Jun 5, 9:42 pm, tom <twake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;)
>
> Combines the lifestreams of twitter with the popularity fest that is
> digg.
>
> I registeredhttp://feedcake.comlast week (mostly because I thought
> 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) ...
>
> 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
> > > 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...
>
> > I'd been thinking that linking them  in with social networking would give
> > 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...
>
> > You might find the way XKCD's IRC Channel fixed the low signal to noise