Here come the Mighty Aggregators! The new websites are "agg-blogs" which fully utilize RSS feeds to provide content. The trend of the agg-blog is like a hybrid of having the niche market
of a specialty shop while having the catch-all convenience of a mall.
Yes, there is Digg for the techie crowd, but now there two more agg-blogs that cover news and gossip. Newsvine is a news aggregator and group blog with the "digg" component of rating each post. We Smirch is a gossip aggregator that pulls from the news wires and the blogs.
I expect there will be more agg-blogs in the near future covering fashion, food, politics and sex.
Facebook
Twitter
Digg
Reddit
StumbleUpon
you wish…. ;)
March 15th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Digg is nice. Though all these new Social Web thingies still seem more like fragments to me. There’s still a convincing publishing system missing which brings all the great features of digg, delicious, flickr and all that together. Maybe a big player like Yahoo or Apple has to make the move.
I would like to see a blog system with integrated story aggregation. No more hassling about quoting and where did that post originally come from.
Blogs with close topics should be logically linked and have some kind of story-exchange engine. No more concurrence but collaborative blogging, even between different blogs. Some stories would be aggregated automatically or maybe with user ranking but still there would be (human) editor handpicking some highlight stories and publishes genuine content. Guest Authors or Guest Editors would also be great, too. Bringing even more spice into the blogging biz.
News Vine’s ad revenue concept sounds promising, too. Apparently the site’s design isn’t very appealing.
What do you think?
March 17th, 2006 at 12:09 pm