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Thanks for the AltDevBlogADay reference. I hadn't heard of this.

Your suggestions seem spot on. I hadn't thought to incorporate the GitHub api for collaborative features like you outline.

I had an idea for a reputation system backed by GitHub auth. Basically any githubber can upvote an article as a kind of endorsement. The idea being that a reader can trust the source content a bit more knowing it has x upvotes or what not. It's just an idea at this point and would have to work with a lot of javascript/jsonp/widget stuff going on.

But back to your collaboration suggestions, yes definitely something I'm writing down! Hopefully working with native GitHub integration will spur more adoption.