An update from the Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory:
I spent the week working on LibraryCloud News (a project that Jeff, David, and I have been batting around for a while). We hope LibraryCloud News will become the Hacker News for library dorks (instead of startup dorks). It’s a place where you can submit questions or a link to the community and then engage the community through comment-style discussion. (Exactly the way Reddit and Hacker News work) LibaryCloud News is powered by the same code that powers Hacker News and is humming along in the Amazon Cloud. If you’re interested, we’d love to have you help us beta test LibraryCloud News at http://news.librarycloud.org/
OK, so I have a weakness for libraries and law libraries in particular. 😉
Still, I think this is a promising development and should be encouraged.
Now imagine harvesting the stories from this as a feed and mapping in related resources so people pursuing the stories have related technology, users and vendors with them. Beats the hell out of ads anyday.