Sunday, February 05, 2006
Aggregating The Aggregator
Like a snake eating its own tail into infinity, so the web consumes and regrows itself in the most fascinating ways.
Plurged [plurged.com]
From the creators of leve1 comes a memeorandum-like website that automatically pulls new content based off of popular stories on leve1.com.
The great irony occurs when one realizes that one is clicking on links provided by other content aggregators before they were posted onto leve1 and then auto-magically extracted by Plurged. In my mind Plurged could be a cross between "splash" and "splurge": one item can make a big impact, but when you add up all the ripples of multiple links you get something more. Sure, the content doesn't change when it passes from one filter to another, but the perception of that content changes and that is what I believe is important. The same NY Times story has a far different readership and generates different responses if it is published in the original paper, than if it is sold to The Star Tribune. The some concept is occurring on a massive scale with the myriad of social news/content gatherers.
More directly related to Jeromy's goal of growing leve1, "plurging" could become an integral part of leve1. Pair Plurge's automatic story-relating tool with leve1's latching feature, and suddenly a loop has been created. I would be very curious to see how well this interconnected system scales once leve1 explodes in user contributions.
¶ 10:44 PM Plurged [plurged.com]
From the creators of leve1 comes a memeorandum-like website that automatically pulls new content based off of popular stories on leve1.com.
The great irony occurs when one realizes that one is clicking on links provided by other content aggregators before they were posted onto leve1 and then auto-magically extracted by Plurged. In my mind Plurged could be a cross between "splash" and "splurge": one item can make a big impact, but when you add up all the ripples of multiple links you get something more. Sure, the content doesn't change when it passes from one filter to another, but the perception of that content changes and that is what I believe is important. The same NY Times story has a far different readership and generates different responses if it is published in the original paper, than if it is sold to The Star Tribune. The some concept is occurring on a massive scale with the myriad of social news/content gatherers.
More directly related to Jeromy's goal of growing leve1, "plurging" could become an integral part of leve1. Pair Plurge's automatic story-relating tool with leve1's latching feature, and suddenly a loop has been created. I would be very curious to see how well this interconnected system scales once leve1 explodes in user contributions.
