You rock, Ben! I’ve set out a little welcome mat for Wikinomics readers at the link above.

This site is still my favorite blog in this area but fledgling news aggregator Social|Median is shaping up to be excellent as well.

Daniel: I was wondering what are your thoughts on Social|Median vs other social news aggregators/ bookmarking sites like Yahoo Buzz or Digg or Delicious or Diigo.

I took a quick look at Social Median to get the gist of it, but i’m curious what your perspective is as a user.

Jude: As someone who never really got into Digg, I see S|M as perhaps a more-social take on Digg.

Rather than tracking the main “what’s new” stream, you build up a friends network of people with similar interests to you and you track the stories they’re posting. If you are interested you “clip” the story and it rises.

Stories are automatically (and manually) linked to different “news networks” that are created and populated by users. For instance, I created one called “knowledge sharing” and seeded it with a few keywords, the feed to this blog, and the feed to my blog.

The best thing about this site for me is that it has only been public for two weeks so there’s a very neat feel to it. The community is small enough to get your mind around and the founder has personally interacted with me and my stories several times – both on S|M and on Twitter.

I’m sure there are other differences between S|M and some of the more established aggregators and I’m going to summon someone from S|M in hopes that they’ll explain it for you better than I can.

Aside: I’m also floored by the volume of social media news at http://socialmedia.alltop.com/. I’ll *never* get to the bottom of that page, and I hope to fish some more great blog post topics out of the stream.

Thanks for chatting about us folks.

The key user value we are going for at socialmedian is to enable people to get a decent handle on information overload. On the one hand, people want to have access to everything (more noise). On the other hand, they want a system smart enough to help them effectively turn the volume down to just what matters to them.

As Daniel notes, we’re just really getting started at socialmedian. Please continue to press us to make it work better and pass along feedback and suggestions.

-jason & the socialmedian team

Daniel and Jason: thanks for your thoughts, i’m going to follow SocialMedian and see how it develops.

Dan (do you mind if I call you Dan!) – You might be interested in following me on Del.icio.us if you’re interested in social media type finds. I tend to bookmark a lot of Web 2.0 websites for review when I come across them in our research or in my general meanderings. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the site but it’s essentially a shared social bookmarking tool. http://delicious.com/jfiorillo

Also: socialmedia.alltop is a GREAT find, i’m going to add it to my regular reading. It’s kind of like popurls or netvibes if you’re interested in other websites like it – I like to think of them as aggregators of aggregators.

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