Here is a good example of a featured blog post. Twitter implements pinned tweets. GitHub lets you pin repos. When you are dealing with ephemeral content, I can definitely see the appeal of keeping your best stuff at the top.
The biggest question here is how to implement this from a data perspective. My first instinct is to have 'featured' be a tag and have the component show a certain number of posts of that type and tag. Of course, I haven't implemented tags yet...
Here is a good example of a featured blog post. Twitter implements pinned tweets. GitHub lets you pin repos. When you are dealing with ephemeral content, I can definitely see the appeal of keeping your best stuff at the top.
The biggest question here is how to implement this from a data perspective. My first instinct is to have 'featured' be a tag and have the component show a certain number of posts of that type and tag. Of course, I haven't implemented tags yet...