I had an idea for a site last week, so over the past week, I built it. If you'd like to help me test it out, please drop me a comment or email me.

The basic concept of the site is allowing users to create clippings (link to pages, images, videos, podcasts, whatever) on *one* page. You can organize the layout of this page with each item (drag + drop) - basically you can create a newspaper front page (but much richer, cause it's the web).

This idea first came up when during the Hurricane Katrina coverage, and more recently the whole North Korean nuclear thing. The thing that sucks about the blogosphere is that it's hard to track one topic when it's really fresh - Wikipedia tends to be real slow with this, and most blogs don't want to "flood" their sites with a bunch of posts on one topic. Sites like del.icio.us would work well, except searching for tags is ... well... sorta sucky.

This site tries to let one "expert" on a topic create a rich page - hopefully these will become nodes of information for situations that change rapidly. Later iterations of the site may allow for multiple editors to one topic and allow readers to submit their own links, but this early version will just allow one person to edit a given topic.

How useful would it be to see a topic on the history of North Korea's nuclear arms? Imagine if somebody had kept one since 1996 ... to see how the topic had changed (the site will offer snapshots, like archive.org, on every topic page) over time, and to quickly visit it once every few days to read the most interesting news/blog posts/videos about the subject?

Again, this whole thing is an experiment, I have no idea if this concept is worthwhile. Frankly, I'm getting a little bored with reverse-chronological two-pane blog entries forced into my RSS reader - this site is an attempt to break with that (although it still offers RSS and OPML) (... and I think I've stopped making sense with all my ramblings).

I haven't linked ot the site yet because I want to try it out with a few people first and get some feedback - I know there's a bunch of features I still want to implement so there's a "rich experience" when you use the site...