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Here is my Awesome music playlist which features a growing number of cool funky videos that I find on Youtube featuring some of the most awesome music that I’ve found so far. Youtube features about every single concert, music video and song one can be looking for of popular artists. I wish Youtube would feature higher quality and a full screen playlist playback feature:

Kevin Rose just announced the Digg Story Suggest Feature on the GigaOM TV show:

So what we are doing is that you’ll see a feature come out here in the near future that is our Story Suggest Feature. We hired some amazing mathematicians to come in and create algorithms for us that take a look at what you’ve dugg in the past, your interests, and starts to suggest stories and friends based on what you’ve been digging. So you’ll see that kind of help out there.

I believe this could be the most awesome feature of Digg if those mathematicians and Web 2.0 engineers at Digg can pull this off in the most optimized and effective way. Basically this would provide a personalised Digg frontpage for each user, not based only on the top stories and top stories from categories which you can filter, but based on your exact taste simply based on your complete previous digging activity compared with the digging activity of all other digg users.

I have been having this idea and suggesting it on Digg since the 19th of July 2006.

Here is the time that I submitted this idea on Digg the first time on the 19th of July 2006:

http://digg.com/programming/Feature_request_Personalized_Digg_and_auto_make_friends

This is the email I sent to Digg Partners [partners@digg.com] on the 20th of May 2007 at 11:32AM CET:

Subject: Personalized News Generator

You should offer this feature at some adress like: http://digg.com/users/Username/personalized/
or http://digg.com/users/Username/recommendations/

with according personalized RSS feed for each user. The user also can choose to have that personalized list of automatically chosen news stories private or public, as well as customize it with different settings, like how important a news item has to be to be added to the personalized news feed.

So each Digg user should get personalized News just based on the stories that the user previously digged.

I can suggest you more tricks about how I think you can do this. Just tell me if you want me to elaborate how I think you should program this feature.

Basically instead of most Digg users reading the front-page news only, there should also be an automatic way to provide automatically generated news based on news that people who digg the same way also digged and that the user has not read yet. Monitoring friends activity is not good enough in my opinion. Friends should be basically chosen by the system automatically, it’s like http://last.fm but for News.

Also I think there should be another way of counting the relevancy of a news story than by simple amount of diggs. Each digg user should have a different representative value based on that users previous digg activity. I can tell you more about my idea of that if you want.

This is the automatic reply that I immediately got back from Digg Partners:

Subject: Re: Personalized News Generator

Thanks for your inquiry about partnering with Digg.  We will review your request as soon as possible and contact you if there is an opportunity at this time.Regards,

Digg Partners

I am not suggesting that I am the only one who has suggested this feature to be added to Digg, nor that I would be the first one to have thought of it, since these suggestion algorithms exist and are implemented on Web 2.0 sites like Last.fm, Amazon, Netflix and more. I am just happy to know I submitted this idea on Digg over a year before it was announced and a few months ago again on email and that it just might have influenced the decision making process at the Digg headquarters if they do at all read Digg stories and their partners@digg.com email (unless this feature has been requested before by other Digg users? Or has this feature been announced officially previously?).

Anyways, I am very much looking forward to this feature being added to Digg. Hopefully it will kick ass. If it does, that will then provide a better reason to Digg stories, since users might in return for their Digging efforts have a better more personalized Digg Story Suggest experience. 

Air New Zealand, in conjunction with Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation and Boeing, is testing the waters for a new fuel made from the algae found in pond scums, which could have the capacity to reduce the entire carbon footprint of the airline industry to zero. Source: inhabitat.com Found on Digg.

Virgin Airlines announced that it will start trialling the use of biofuels in a 747-400. The carrier has reached an agreement with the aircraft manufacturer Boeing and GE, a major engine builder, which will see the inaugural test flight taking place next year. Source: telegraph.co.uk.

Easyjet announces the Ecojet. I’d like to see Easyjet and Ryanair clear up for us which is the state of R&D for making the airplanes cleaner.

Can we do electric airplanes using batteries? How about biofuel? Hydrogen? Is it possible to use any clean energy technologies to lift an airplane even if it provides lower effeciency than kerozen?

I hope that Sarkozy and Merkel aren’t doing their pressure to secretly stop Airbus from doing R&D for implementing clean airplane technologies. If we simply need to setup biofuel refueling and distribution pipelines to every airport and manufacture biofuel using conventionnal agricultural fields, then let’s do it now and let’s have the prototypes flying as soon as possible!

What is a free society? Is it one where everyone can do whatever they want as long as it doesn’t bother others?

Does a free society mean everything should have a price and not one purchase be monitored or regulated by a central governmental entity that really represents the people?

Did Bush get elected in fair and democratic elections in 2000 and 2004? Did Sarkozy win a fair democratic election while his oil and war buddies control most of the media thus most of the information channels available to most of the french people?

How can we, the people of the developped supposedly democratic economies, let these crooks have the power to control our governments?

How soon will this change? I don’t think that one old constitution of any supposedly civilised state should slow down the process of the internetisation of politics, that needs to take place as soon as the right online applications are put to use. The Internet should enable the complete and fast realisation of the free society, the utopy of a perfect world.