Letters to the Editor
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Ideas for "Salon Web 2.0"
One of the biggest issues with this 2 way web thing is seperating the good stuff from the fluff,chaff,etc.... Democratic web does not mean that some people's content is just better than other people's content. So make it a real democratic web -- not the people's republic of web 2.0:
* Allow us to give feedback about each other. Then start maintaining a feedback store for each reader's contributed content. The higher a person's score, the closer to the top you float that person's content.
* Similarly, score people on how often they contribute and do other stuff. The more they contribute, the more visible they become (but it has to be "good" contribution -- thus the necessity for feedback scores or some such mechanism)
* Allow people to nominate "best contributor of the month" or best article or best blog. Basically do a web 2.0 awards show.
* Allow people to tag content
* Have a tag cloud showing what the current zeitgeist is
A lot of my suggestions are basically ways to "shape" the user-contributed content and allow the good stuff to become more visible.
It's an attention economy after all...