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[Athanasios]

Look at what news.ycombinator.com does. The company, ycombinator, is a venture capitalist firm that funds entrepreneurs generally involved in software and web services. Their news site is about software and entrepreneurship, and it generates content by user submissions and by allowing commenting. This has allowed many entrepreneurs to know who they are and provide many applicants for funding. It is their funnel and hook.

Something similar can be done here but with a different focus. Longevity itself may be too narrow for this but health and biology would likely be broad enough. User questions and discussions within the forums are the majority of posts, leaving a lot of linkable essay or news content as an aside. This could provide a new focus, bring in a more diverse crowd, allow for an additional funnel for funding projects and introduce longevity concepts, etc.

The idea is that hiring a writer to generate content would be expensive, but aggregating it would provide a lot of the benefits, while the site is almost all user maintained.

Edited by Athanasios, 22 June 2011 - 03:54 AM.

[brokenportal]

I think I know what your talking about, and if so then I agree and so does Caliban. He started aggregating news from a few sources and I had petitioned for more. I think he cited that one of the problems is a need to have people then move them to their appropriate sections. He may have found a fix for that by now though. See the news gathering in the cryonics section for instance: http://www.longecity...um/61-cryonics/

[baden-baden]

It would be some kind of ScienceDaily.com-twitter-like oriented in the matter of longevity science, but organised and published online by a software ?

[brokenportal]

It would be some kind of ScienceDaily.com-twitter-like oriented in the matter of longevity science, but organised and published online by a software ?

Take a look at that cryonics link in my last response. Now though I think we could use more. A Fight Aging feed should work wonders if we can get it.

[Danail Bulgaria]

The best possible information aggregation is the book writing. So, better idea will be to write a GNU book concerning immortality, that anyone can download, change and upload it. If You want the book to be of scientific value it MUST be based only on cited SCIENTIFIC research data, from INTERNATIONALLY APPROVED SCIENTIFIC SOURCES, like PubMed and many others, and cited data from APPROVED colledge and university books. The information in it must be structured - not like news.ycombinator.com - but with clear developed topics, accompanied with contents section and appendanes if needed.

[Danail Bulgaria]

P.S. some years ago I tried to do such GNU book, and placed it in my web site (http://drangelov.hit.bg/) in separated HTM file, but the idea died, because of absence of interest. There are still remaining approximately 40 Kb of plain text (.TXT) somewhere in my PC. So, if You start a gnu immortality book I also may try to help.

[brokenportal]

P.S. some years ago I tried to do such GNU book, and placed it in my web site (http://drangelov.hit.bg/) in separated HTM file, but the idea died, because of absence of interest. There are still remaining approximately 40 Kb of plain text (.TXT) somewhere in my PC. So, if You start a gnu immortality book I also may try to help.

Seivtcho, can you fill this form out here? http://www.longecity...oposals-thread/ We can then consider it further.

[Danail Bulgaria]

When I answer the questions about the gnu book for the longer life or the immortality where to send it?

[brokenportal]

When I answer the questions about the gnu book for the longer life or the immortality where to send it?

Copy paste the questions and post as a topic here in this sub forum.