Brainstorm - section is like dark science. There is no real way tracking ideas, progression of ideas, popularity of ideas, etc.
Randomly surfing to brainstorm gives an impression that nothing never changes. Something must be done to make brainstorming even little appealing to non-developers. You go and vote, after that: nothing. Then you could try to memorize how many votes was there 2 weeks ago... err...
Tracking ideas brainstorm: http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/watching_brainstorm/
Popularity of ideas can be solved via brainstorm item:http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/add_voting_for_the_actual_ideas/
And better start page: http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/landing_in_brainstorm/
This idea is for further improvements. So solutions concerning things above, please put them in right place!