I decided to start a social bookmarking/content ranking site like Digg or Reddit for philosophers.

Here’s the site. It’s called Sympoze.

It’s a kind of social network site that will help everyone find really great philosophy content online. The idea is simple: users submit links to philosophy content they like – blog posts, online papers, or journal articles. The rest of the community can vote up or down any entry that is submitted. Ideally, really great philosophy content gets promoted to the front page and it has the seal of approval from several professional philosophers.

The site is up and running, but I’m still testing out some of the features. The social bookmarking module and voting-up modules are working well – that’s the important part.

Also, there isn’t a lot of highly ranked content because that requires lots of users. The real joy of social bookmarking and community rated/promoted content doesn’t happen until there are lots of users submitting links to sites they like and giving all of the other users a chance to vote it up or down.

That’s the part I’d like to start testing out now. Accounts are open to anyone with a Ph.D. in philosophy or graduate students in philosophy. If you’re interested in an account just send me an email and I’ll take care of the rest.

Spread the word to any philosophers you think might be interested.