John Chandler has put together a very nice news aggregator called Inbreaking.com. On the site, you can add links to noteworthy news articles (or blog posts) relevant to EC, missional church, and Kingdom concerns. New submissions get added to a queue, where readers can vote for the stories/links they think are most noteworthy. The stories that receive the most votes are listed on the main page, so the idea is that you get the best of the best when you visit the site.
In order to really be effective, this type of site requires some critical mass, so there are lots of stories and lots of votes. You can register here, and start adding and voting for stuff you think others should see. You can also leave comments, and the site supports gravatars. When you click on a story, you can see who has voted for it, and you can read a lot of info about a user’s site activity on the profile page (here’s mine).
If you use RSS, you can subscribe to all stories or just top (”published”) stories, and there’s also a blog (feed).
Related sites: Digg (for all kinds of news - massively popular), Pligg (the backend technology), Spredd (a site similar to Inbreaking).
Thanks for linking Justin. I’m slowly seeing the traffic start to build up, so hopefully we are on our way to a very useful social bookmarking site.
John-
I think it would be really awesome to offer linkrolls for stories a user has voted on, like del.icio.us does (see my “del.icio.us links” in the right sidebar). Any chance? I know that’s an order of difficulty and traffic far beyond what Pligg requires, though.
Justin,
I hear ya… I’m certainly hoping to see some of that kind of stuff develop within the pligg community, because I don’t have the coding skills for it.