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	<title>technology &#38; the social &#187; popularity</title>
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		<title>Daily Mashup &#8211; popular = good?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As anyone who has spent much time on social content web sites (flickr, delicious, etc.) knows, or takes for granted, popular does equal good. I&#8217;m not making philosophical claims but practical ones. If many people put a bookmark or photo in their personal collection it&#8217;s pretty likely that it&#8217;s useful or at least interesting. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As anyone who has spent much time on social content web sites (flickr, delicious, etc.) knows, or takes for granted, popular does equal good. I&#8217;m not making philosophical claims but practical ones. If many people put a bookmark or photo in their personal collection it&#8217;s pretty likely that it&#8217;s useful or at least interesting. This is not quantifiable (well, perhaps, if someone wants to take that on) but it&#8217;s easy to experience for yourself on these sites.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://dailymashup.com/">Daily Mashup</a> really has something good going on. It&#8217;s just a combination of <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> Interesting, <a href="http://del.icio.us">Delicious</a> &#038; <a href="http://www.furl.net">Furl</a> popular and Yahoo news most clicked. A simple daily internet zeitgeist. If I didn&#8217;t have lots of things to get done I&#8217;d make it my home page.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d love to have a customizable version of this with lots of display options for any feed view full text, mash up with other feeds in a cloud, pick out the popular things within several tag feeds, and so on with a nice fast ajax interface. Maybe I&#8217;ll hack something together until this exists.</p>
<p>To clarify, I don&#8217;t think this should be anyone&#8217;s sole interface to the web leading to tyranny of the masses. Search is still incredibly valuable &#038; someone has to put these sites on the map in the first place and when you&#8217;re talking about specific tags you can find the rare gems also.</p>
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