Don't Back Down

On my daily stroll through the electronic world, I found my way to an interesting article about making use of Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs) at Amazon, which would potentially allow you to read an entire book online. Interesting concept, to be sure, though certainly something to add to the "not quite legal" category. Not to mention that you'd have to be able to determine an SIP for each page - not an easy task, with a book you've never read.

In any case, it is a neat idea. But I found more interest in the link there to populicio.us, a service that lists the most recent and most popular links on del.icio.us. I've talked before about how I don't really care for del.icio.us. This one little page (which has an RSS feed) just changed that.

Now I get a list of the new sites in the last 24 hours, delievered straight to Bloglines. They also provide a similar list for the last 48 hours, a list for the most popular of all sites (not just new) in the last 24 hours and a list of the all-time most popular. But the "new site" feed is the one that I like the most.

It's like a microcosm of the daily news, and provides a few more links than Daypop's Top 40 (with surprisingly little overlap, so I use both). Sweet.