On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:44 AM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> if you do not know what Digg is, it’s a site where people submit links to
> web pages (often news articles) and others vote these links up or down.
> Visiting Digg will let you view links sorted and filtered using criteria of
> your preference.
>
> There is an open source implementation of the Digg idea called Pligg. A few
> years ago, I proposed that I set up a "Pligg" that caters to our interests.
> All of you can post links to news and blogs you think would be of interest
> and the rest can vote on them. Crowd-sourcing and all that rot ;-).
>
> At the time of my proposal, there were few takers, but now that even our
> host is a blogger, and tech comfort and interest might have increased, it's
> time to reissue my call for interest. Would you find such a service useful?
> A means to both get to know news and analysis and to filter it using the
> collective wisdom of your comrades.
>
> See Digg here: http://digg.com/
> Learn about Pligg here: http://www.pligg.com/
>
> For the project to be useful, we need a small set that is committed to
> adding links (though I can hopefully auto-create links to known blogs like
> Doug's, M.Perelman's, etc), and a larger group that will not infrequently
> vote on subsets of links.
>
> --ravi
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