[lbo-talk] reviving the DiggLeft project

[ravi]

On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Aaron Stark wrote:
> ravi wrote:
>> Aarok Stark mentioned that someone in Z Mag was attempting something
>> similar. If you have more info please let me know. I would rather not
>> duplicate and split work already underway.
>
> I found the thing I mentioned-- it was actually started by someone  
> who has
> posted to lbo-talk in the past, Taysir John Gabbour (
> http://www.zcommunications.org/blog/view/1873).
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/parsoc/
>

I have cc'ed him (Tayssir: see http://left.slinkset.com/ for a Digg- 
like effort) to see if he would like us to join his project with an  
expanded domain.


>> I will need suggestions for a domain name (keep in mind that
>> simple domain names are gone, but we may still find some interesting
>> possibilities with the recently announced .me domain: enlighten.me
>
> Too bad it's not really on Digg (the Slinkset interface looks very  
> nice
> though); I liked DiggLeft.org or DiggLeft.net. The latter domain  
> name is
> available, but it might cause confusion if the site behind it actually
> wasn't Digg. How about postleft.net ? I also like enlighten.me-- it  
> might
> catch the interest of people who don't think of themselves as  
> leftists.

enlighten.me is gone, of course (I was hoping against hope!). And  
using "Digg" in the name might invite a "cease and desist" request. I  
will think of a few other .me options that might work.

I am already a bit unhappy with Slinkset:

* it provides "categories" but not "tags".

* when it imports blog posts as links it does not have an option to  
set some default categories or import the categories from the blog.

* for a viewer, there seems to be no way to say filter links by some  
criteria: e.g: > 5 votes.

	--ravi