Slashdot Firehose
Slashdot.org (part of OSTG, Inc) has announced the release of a content aggregation system called Slashdot Firehose.
The Slashdot Firehose is a collaborative system designed to allow users to assist our editors in the story selection process. Try tagging and voting on the entries below, and by using the ‘feedback’ menu by each entry. The hose can contain submissions, RSS Feeds, bookmarks, journal entries and Slashdot stories.
To me, the interface is not entirely clear yet, and help information is non-existant. For example, what is that filter bar do - filtering to a color seems unintuitive if you don’t know what the color means.
Features include:
- Anonymous submission option
- Bookmark sites
- Post comments
- Create user journals
- Pull of content from other RSS feeds or areas such as Digg for review and rating in Slashdot
The system is intended to allow more popular content to be noticed by Slashdot editors. Kind of like the Digg process itself. So, on the one hand, the editorial process has changed. On the other, the content pulled into Slashdot has changed. Now, there is a community driven portion to the site where content can be read and discussed without being approved by an editor. I still think it’s just another Digg clone.
Via sys-con media
Tags: aggregation, digg, firehose, RSS, rss-syndication, slashdot, slashdot-firehose