I’ve been meaning to post this for quite some time, but I’m finally getting around to it.  And I think it works out because the website seems to be very stable and operational at this point.  So, without further ado, I give you Ichiban News!

The website is developed by a friend of mine.  Basically the concept is similar to Digg or other news aggregating websites.  You can submit a story, any story at all!  If it strikes your fancy, go ahead and submit it.  It could be a serious article that you think people should see, or a funny one.  It could be a particularly good post by your favorite blogger (::ahem::).  The fun part is that you get to make up your own headline and description of the story.  Make it funny, make it serious, make it anything you want.  Once it is submitted people can vote a story up or down.  Users can also leave comments on a story.  The idea is that the more interesting a story is (interesting being a formula calculated from number of votes and number of comments, among other things) the farther up it will bubble until it makes the front page.  The less interesting a story is (less timely, more down votes, or nobody voting or commenting on it at all) it will slowly move down the page.  If you have enough users, the end result is that the most interesting news is always at the top!  So this gives the average person the power to affect what becomes “news”.

Anybody can uses the website, there is no account to sign up for.  But, in order to submit stories or vote you must have a Google (i.e. gmail) account (which is free of course if you don’t already have one).

So everybody go over there and participate.  The more people that use the site the more useful it becomes (more submissions and more votes means more good news brought to my attention).  Become an early adopter and get in on the ground floor!  Now is the time to put your fingerprint on the media!