MemeStreams | Technorati: Current Events, with context

Very similar to some things going on here. Their "Technorati Anywhere!" bookmark is pretty much the same as our Discuss bookmark in how it works and what it does.. This site works much like MemeStreams threads and the top level page, only all their content comes from feeds, and our content comes from MemeStreams user blogs. Our threads aim to be more like discussion areas. Different thrust, some of the same methods.. MemeStreams revolves around the users and the reputation system. The top level (democratic) view is a product of the way the system works, not the focus of the system.. The agent is the focus.. Popularity rules on the top level page, and your immediate community (users whom have high reputation with you) rules in the agent. Its not really clear yet, because we have such a limited number of active users, the system allows for a high amount of clustering.

I'm currently working on a system for allowing users to import content from RSS feeds into MemeStreams.. Its still not completely clear how all the details of it are going to work.. Its all work in progress. I'm not in a position where I'm ready to give any kinda ETA for it making it to the site either. Normally I wouldn't even mention it till it was farther along, but after seeing this, its on topic, its unignorable, its inspiring.. At some point we are going to have functionality much like this.

Also, From David Sifry's blog (http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000251.html):

] Technorati's got a new feature called Current Events that
] I just whipped up. It is a list of the top links to
] "professional" news sites by bloggers in the last two
] hours, along with comments and analysis. I created it
] because, like most people, I've been following the progress
] of the war, watching and reading the mass media, and I
] wanted to know what people out there were saying about the
] news. What are the most important stories? What is real,
] and what is propaganda? What is not being reported, or is
] being underreported? These were the questions on my mind
] when I created Technorati's Current Events. Ever since the
] Google purchase of Blogger, the thing that struck me as the
] most compelling potential new feature was the combination
] of Google News with Blogger users' commentary. Perhaps
] they'll still do it, but I think I just beat them to it.

I like that attitude.

] I'm constantly amazed by the collective wisdom of a huge
] number of individuals, each publishing their thoughts, and
] voting their attention by linking to things. I wanted to
] tap into this collective brainpower, organize it, and
] present it back to us all.

And that is what we are working on here too.

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Argh.. It makes me feel really uncomfortable every time I see something thats uber similar to what I'm working on.. It seems to happen often.

/me needs to spend less time reading news and more time coding.

Wait.. Thats it.. The war.. The War!! I can blame it on the war! I like that. "The War is holding up MemeStreams development." If anyone asks, thats my excuse from here out.

Technorati: Current Events, with context