Rj’s AIC Blog

Another milestone on the road to the Launch of AussieInnovation.com has just been reached: our news feed is now enabled and, in the fine tradition of our community, this is not just a static list of stories. Instead, we have implemented a democratic, community-driven news system that ensures stories interesting to Australian Innovators rise to the top.

The first step is for you to get involved and submit any Australian Innovation-related stories that you find interesting, by clicking Submit Link (under /News in the menu in the left-hand sidebar). Any member of the site can suggest a link to a news item, announcement or even an interesting website, and you can view all the stories that have been submitted by fellow members of the Australian Innovation Community in the “/News/Breaking News” section of the site. (Advanced users might want to use our bookmarklet.)

The second step is to vote for those stories that you find interesting. (You can also vote negatively for stories you find boring or irrelevant.) Once a story has received enough votes, it appears on our News page and in our RSS feed. The order of stories is determined by the votes of our members in real time, so the top stories will always have significance to the community. Should the story not receive enough votes, or if enough users report a problem with the submission, the story will remain in the “Breaking News” area for 3 days before it will be removed.

Stories are short summaries of articles on other websites, with links to the article and provision for readers to comment on the article. All content and access to the news section of the site is free and open to everyone, but registration is compulsory for certain elements, such as voting for stories, submitting stories and commenting on stories.