[chipsy]

Definitely piqued my interest. I like that it works with Twitter, since it's an obvious "share point." But with this type of system people should have the option of posting their work anonymously.

The other thing I think this type of system should do is to aggregate the content. Encourage tagging and referencing of posts throughout the system, rather than siloing to a single author, and find ways to rank the content. Youtube is a good model. Rationale as follows:

I am often inspired on the spur of the moment to write detailed comments of sizes between a few paragraphs to the length of a short essay. And yet I know that most comments end up buried forever in an old discussion thread, never seeing the light of day again, regardless of their value.

So my thinking is that if we had a system that blurs "comments" and "articles" and tried to facilitate a discussion curated over years instead of hours, more value could be captured.