WFI, FanLib... Digg?

[hope]

With all the cross-fandom dramas going on, what I reckon would be really cool would be some kind of community tagging system. For example, in my professional field, there is an 'np tech' tag which you can subscribe to the feed of - if someone tags something 'np tech' on their blog, on technorati, on flickr, anywhere... it shows up in that feed. (Communal tags is something I would REALLY love LJ to have, period.)

Would it be worth setting up a digg-style page(s) where people could tag in important entries relating to these issues? (moveablehistory, I know you played around with setting up a digg-style feed for fic a short while ago.)

I've just seen so many posts around with interesting things and links, I think it would be a good idea to make it all more accessible, instead of a billion randomly linked around posts on LJ.

How about a communal tag for del.icio.us, even? like 'fanlib' or 'fancensorship2007'? It's easy enough to locate the RSS feed for a del.icio.us tag, isn't it?


Speaking of all of the above (kinda) - if you're in fandom, take this poll which is geared at estimating just how much money the fan community contributes towards LJ.

ETA: Join fandom_counts to measure just how many LJs are actually fandom LJs.

Comments

[moveablehistory.livejournal.com]

It would be incredibly easy for me to set up a digg-style thing. Give me a half and hour and one should be up at http://proofofconcept.wild-hunt.org (http://proofofconcept.wild-hunt.org). :))

[nigeltde]

I like it a lot! I think it could come in very handy. Thanks for setting it up!

[nasus221.livejournal.com]

Srsly, there is a lot of linking on my flist, but probably not on everyones since some people have fewer friends or not people who would be talking about this (even thought it seems like everyone is). Organization is always good. That's why I think we'd get some press or a response from this, because fandom is so good at organizing. It would take awhile, but when we're passionate, we're so there. And LOUD.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

some people are calling it "strikethrough 2007"...

[nigeltde]

I don't know how communal tags would work; even with this collective action, fandom seems to me to be far too dispersed to bring in something centralised for individual posts. How large is the group using it in your professional experience?

However I reckon that the Digg-like thing moveablehistory has set up could be *extremely* useful.