Is River of News enough? (Scripting News).

My comment:

I always like to refer to the concepts of “Stock and Flow”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_and_flow

A while back, i wrote some code for a so-called “lifestream” which was a buzzword at the time.
It ended up becoming more Digg-like.

But the point is, the river (flow) should be a standard view mode. I agree with that.
What I also think is applicable is letting users who are tapping into that flow to add to their pool (stock).
The pool is just your saved items. The saved items can be labeled like:

* will read later
* recommended +1

Anything not saved or recommended is obviosuly going to tend to drop off the radar. No need to tag a negative.

Naturally, you apply some simple collective algorithms and you can bubble up the most saved and/or recommended items.
I think that each time you, in essence, bookmark an item (url) you also ping a hub so that the data can be collected and used via an open API so other apps can build off of that data. That is basically what is happening on Twitter. But a de-centralized approach is more interesting to me.

So yeah… Rivers, Pools and Bubbles.
It’s Stock and Flow.

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