ASH-10 Notebook » aggregation http://ash10.com/notes Thoughts and ideas under construction Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:07:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Been thinking about what you might call … http://ash10.com/notes/been-thinking-about-what-you-might-call/ http://ash10.com/notes/been-thinking-about-what-you-might-call/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:08:14 +0000 Pete Ashton http://ash10.com/notes/been-thinking-about-what-you-might-call/ Been thinking about what you might call “hyperlocal aggregators” of late. It’s not a novel idea by any stretch but possibly a natural next step. Say you’ve got a load of blogs, forums, etc about a local area. How do you deal with all that stuff? Group blogs like Jon Bounds’ Brumblr network are a possible solution but they do tend to follow the 80/20 rule of participation and still act as a bottleneck. The Hyperlocal Newswire is another possible solution but it’s more search based than perhaps I’m thinking.

I keep returning to I Can Has Cheezbuger for some reason, not so much for the system they use but for the notion of letting stuff bubble up through activity. Or maybe Flickr Interestingness is the thing. Popular isn’t the thing here. I don’t care if lots of people have looked at a thing but I do care if a few people found it really compelling. How do you measure that?

And, ultimately, how can this be connected to a specific geographic place?

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