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		<title>Pushing a Geek Agenda with Trending Topics</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark Krynsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve seen my share of bitching and moaning about how lame the trending topics on Twitter have become. Well with the mainstream comes the TMZ crowd so unfortunately it’s a...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve seen my share of bitching and moaning about how lame the trending topics on Twitter have become. Well with the mainstream comes the TMZ crowd so unfortunately it’s a sign of the times. Remember when geeks ran Twitter? Remember <a href="http://colorwar2008.com/" target="_blank">Color Wars</a>? Hopefully in the future we&#8217;ll be able to have trending topics created based on our social graph. But until that day comes, I had a goofy idea thinking it might be fun to have a weekly organized way to promote geekdom across the trendingsphere. That idea came in the way of trying to create a geek meme on a weekly basis.</p>
<p><a href="http://graphjam.com/2009/05/03/song-chart-memes-things-twittered/"><img class="mine_4054411" title="song-chart-memes-things-twittered" src="http://graphjam.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/song-chart-memes-things-twittered.jpg" alt="song chart memes" /></a><br />
see more <a href="http://graphjam.com">Funny Graphs</a></p>
<p>My idea would be to throw up a site where people could come up with ideas for a topic that is voted on a weekly basis and then executed on a given day. Perhaps it could be known as #trendingtuesday.  The website would also provide an archive of #trendingtuesday’s past. I could probably throw up the site fairly easily using a CMS platform like <a href="http://www.pligg.com/" target="_blank">Pligg</a> or cobble one together with <a href="http://drupal.org" target="_blank">Drupal</a> to get things started. It would also be cool to have a real-time feed of the topic on the site during the day it runs. Perhaps this is just my brain acting up since I may be over caffeinated but I thought it might be fun to do.</p>
<p>I’ll start it off today with the idea that got me thinking about this in the first place. I thought it would be fun to reveal things that we may be embarrassed to admit in the form of <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=geekconfessions" target="_blank">#geekconfessions</a>. (Note: Guess I’m not the innovator here. I just searched Twitter and it appears that <a href="http://twitter.com/direflail/statuses/2915776515" target="_blank">@direflail</a> came up with this idea as well).  So I plan on shooting out a few tweets today using the hashtag and see where it goes.</p>
<p>So if this doesn’t take off, how about using a similar plan to create a trending topic calling out the actions of #douchebags? Now that sounds like a very necessary public service.</p>
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