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I think OP might be a little late to the party

I was looking for a way to share sites with people. I think MetaFilter is probably the closest thing to what I'm looking for.

Thanks.

My question was a little vague. Many bookmarking sites you visit let user submit a headline that is then linked to an article. Let say you are reading the comments for a post and you come across a helpful comment that you want to share with the masses. You would visit "x.com" and submit the comment and link that to the article instead of a headline.

Does that make sense?

Instead of submitting a request, take a shot at building one. If you open source it maybe others can help you build it.

Just a thought.

Facebook integration will definitely help. (I'm not on it)

I've been wanting something like this for my city for a long time.

The only problem for me is getting my not so tech savvy community to find/use this.

I know this is off topic, but how is the Hacker Community up in SLO? Down here it's pretty much non-existing.

I'm not sure how salaries are agreed upon.

For the size of San Franciso (population) for the mayor to be making $250k next year doesn't sound too bad to me.

I live on the Central Coast in the city of Santa Maria, CA. We have a population of about 90-100k. Our biggest business around here is agriculture.

The 2009 annual salary for Santa Maria City Manager was $223,943. I was blown away when I read this.

Again, I have no idea how salaries are agreed upon just thought I'd share.

http://santamariatimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/arti...

Facebook friends to me look more like badges than friends. (I don't use Facebook)

They're like Pokemon, gotta catch them all!

You may know a lot of people, but you only have a handful of friends.

(Just my opinion)

Awesome, knowing this, I'll definitely give it a try!

Thanks

Can bookmarks be private?

It also makes phone calls.

Woah, I didn't say all that. We are a small newspaper and I really doubt we have informants.

Like I said before our "newsroom" doesn't do much reporting other than sitting in on Town Hall meetings and reporting on press releases, our police department isn't very cooperative with us.

I believe anonymity is important especially when someones life can potential be put in harms way. I believe this is why we have witness protection.

My frustrations are about the commenters who would rather spread hate than ideas or engage in friendly debate.

What I was trying to get across is that commenters should own up and stand by their words and not hide behind the keyboard.

It is very frustrating to have to deal with these types of attitudes.

My supervisor was around when this paper got their website up and running (late 90's) and he remembers people around here saying that the internet was just a fad it was never going to catch on. Fast forward to today and most of them are scrambling trying to figure out what to do.

In order to have more accountability you need to have less anonymity, and that is not something commenters on newspaper sites are willing to give up.

We have a report abuse button that is attached to each comment, all our users have to do is click it and it sends an email to the appropriate person for moderation. (This is rarely used unfortunately)

To be honest I don't agree with a lot of the decisions corporate makes in regards to our digital efforts. They are on the other side of the country and believe that if it works in their market it has to work in ours.

It constantly feels like we are playing catch-up to everyone else.

Facebook integration would be great on our site, at least that way we could put a face(no pun intended) to each comment.

I feel you on the whole scumbag thing, I go through our website and check the comments everyday and am blown away by what my neighbors are saying.

I understand that anonymity is important but if you want to make real changes sooner or later someone has to show their face. Just my opinion.

Unfortunately our editor's response to everything is "it's a staffing problem."

Our newsroom, if you want to call it that, spends most of the day re-writing (fluffing) press releases to get a paper out the next day.

Corporate has our system lock down, we don't have access to our database tables and responses to feature requests, like comment promotion, are usually..."We'll bring that up in a meeting."

In my opinion people tend to feed their ego behind a keyboard. A lot of people bite their tongue in face to face conversations, only a few will speak out and make their opinions heard.

Maybe some kind of pay-wall for us would be a possible tool against trolling.

Thank you for your reply.

I wish there were more proactive comments on newspaper websites. I think communities everywhere are missing out on a great opportunity to communicate, exchange ideas, and bring real change to real problems in their own towns. Most of the time newspaper comments (in my community) are about how illegal immigration is to blame for EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING.

Commenters tend to rally behind the bully and pick on anyone who has a different point of view. Most of the time a reply to a different point of view starts of by first insulting the commenter and then explaining why they are wrong about everything.

Funny how we never leave high school....

(I work for a newspaper... )

There is this. -> http://codeigniter.com/wiki/PayPal_Lib/

and this -> https://github.com/orderly/codeigniter-paypal-ipn

I'm looking to charge to post and just need PayPal to communicate back that a payment was successful and proceed with posting.

(newbie here)

I too am working with Codeigniter.

Do you mind me asking how you handle payments?

Is there a specific library your using or did you write your own?

Yeah, same here, I would be driving down from Santa Maria and my Saturdays are pretty busy.

Thanks.

Thanks for this I will definitely get a hold of these guys and see what kind of stuff their up to.

Do you attend any of these meetings?

Touché.

A message to other search engines: "Step your game up!"

In theory, is this conversation similar to a group of people discussing the easiest way to break into a car?

Thank you for your response Willy.

I will definitely take you up on your offer as I work on a plan of attack. I like the idea of competing against someone, it's a challenge I do not face in my current day job. So, if anything it will be fun if I can make my competition sweat at least a little.

Yes, I have talked to their customers and the one thing that keeps coming up a lot is price.

I'm planning on organizing job fairs to help both job seekers and employers. I would also like to offer job seekers a way to build good resumes. As far as presentation, I believe my solution is a lot cleaner and easier to use. I want to help people find careers not jobs.

My competitors website has become a cesspool for advertising. (Non-employment related) I don't have a problem with advertising I know its another source of income for websites, but when I'm looking for a job the last thing I want to see is an ad for an overpriced car I cannot afford, that's why I'm looking for a job. :-)

Thank you for your reply.

I think this is what my local job board is doing as well.

I know someone who tried to compete with them and offered a weekly print product along with the website, but they didn't last too long.

You might want to run some exploding ads, or bouncing burger ads. I think your on to something. :-)