Viraj's Weblog

I think I first heard about Reddit from a Paul Graham article mentioning to leave comments 'via Reddit'. I've been using it ever since. I think it's one of the coolest sites out there, plus it is written in Python .

This interview describes what the site does. I couldn't agree more with this comment:

As a couple of information junkies, Steve and I found ourselves with too many rss feeds and too many tabbed windows open every morning -- we wanted a front page we could go to every morning that was made for us. Del.icio.us/popular was definitely an inspiration, because it showed the potential of aggregation (I think I'm supposed to be calling this the Wisdom of Crowds), but we were after links that were more ephemeral than the reference material one usually bookmarks on del.icio.us.

You can think of it as first aggregating the most highly-rated links for the day, and second being able to learn what you like to read and tailoring the results for you. I've found some great material just by watching the top-rated links, which they provide an RSS feed for.