I have been following reddit.com since I got my eyes on it (I suspect I have been one of the first 100 users of reddit). I start my day with it; be it office or home. And I am amazed every day.For the uninitiated, it is a news/articles aggregator. Basically any registered user can contribute any link to the site and the link will come up on the newest links tab . Then users can rank the link with either a "+" or a "-" showing their interest/preference for the link. The most popular ones will then be lifted to the hottest tab . there also exists an all time favorite tab The links that come up on the new tab are themselves worth the time one spends on the site. They are an eclectic mix mirroring the interests and biases of the frequent contributors to the site. I may be the target audience for such a site so the presented links generally interest me a lot. There are many sites which do that. Kuro5hin and slashdot come to mind. But what really drives value in reddit is the unexpected surprise of a link which is both rare as well as very pertinent or interesting. This I guess is because of the way the site has chosen to rank the links: people vote with their eyeballs/mind/clicks.On the other hand there exists memeorandum . This site was started by Gabe Rivera, the 32-year-old programmer who quit his job at Intel.it started off with a politicas section and now it has a tech section too. This takes more of a centralised approach. Links are selected in a pseudo algorithmic way from pre-picked sites which Gabe selects. "Credibility and Engagement within peers" seems to be the ranking index for selection. memeorandum has received its share of publicity which can be seen via links at the right hand pane on its blog. memeorandum serves up a mix of links which turn into talking points because of the close coterie of high visibility bloggers and "web 2.0 conference attendees". the discussion and the feedback among bloggers is the only reason I frequent this site.Both the sites greatly alleviate the need to go through hundreds of links served by feed aggregators. But in my opinion reddit clearly is more informative and enjoyable than the staid, polictically correct style of memeorandum. Also reddit is faster, way faster. This can be seen in the number of days it took memeorandum to pick up the flock story. It has come on memeorandum today (Oct 22, 2005) only while it appeared on reddit almost a month back. This i think is because reddit gives power to the people. Links with nuisance value only, get segregated into the new tab guaranteeing that links in top tab are really useful. I think in future this the way to go: people vote within a system which filters content with only nuisance value. The centralised way of filtering content will slowly fade away or get slotted into niched applications where freshness of content or new innovations are not necessary.