Reddit + Google News in Drupal

I am building a voting enabled automated news aggregation site (Reddit + Google News), using Drupal. You can see the work in progress at World News. Please do check it out and let me know what you think.

I am using

• Views
• Leech
• Yahoo Term Extractor
• Tagedelic
• Voting API
• Vote Up Down

I created a special module to calculate the hotness of a story. Hotness is calculated using the age of the story and the number of votes it receives, which I shall release to the Drupal community once it has been tested enough. The hotness algorithm I am using is

h = v - (t/d)

where h is hotness
v = number of votes
t = age
d=cooling down factor

Any suggestions for a better algorithm is most welcome.

The Scribbish theme and the Views RSS module has also been hacked to point title links directly to the original source instead of the aggregation site.

Once again, please check my site and let me know what you think.