John Battelle started something new - different on his blog today - news stories that are voted on (much like Digg) and ranked by visitors - it’s called "SearchMob".

"Inspired by Piers Fawkes, an FM author, who used Pligg to do Marktd, I’ve been working on a new feature at Searchblog I’ve come to call SearchMob. Ok, maybe not the best name, but at least there’s alliteration. The idea is simple - you can register and submit stories to the site. Then readers vote the stories up the ranks, similar to Digg, Reddit, and Newsvine (yes, all FM sites)."

"I’ve already learned a lot from this experiment, and will be working to improve the service over the week. Keep on posting, thanks!"

So far I have been looking at the stories, have not submitted or voted on any yet but I probably will submit a story soon.