Just wanted to bring up a new site called Newsvine. You can read more about it on TechCrunch, and an alternative opinion by Paul Kedrsoky. I haven’t started using it heavily yet, but its another source of news, and like Digg, and other sites, leverages the “social web”. It is a trend, which along with blogs and RSS, many of us will be following carefully. Will it work? I am not sure. I am always worried (and Digg is a great example) of stories with more depth getting buried.
That saids Newsvine is a lovely website, pleasing to read and has a chance, over time, to compete with Google News, BBC News, Digg and Memeorandum. Newsvine is also like a blog network in some ways, allowing users to contribute articles and essentially maintain a column which people can subscribe too. This is in addition to contributing articles a la Digg by a process they call seeding. Newsvine also has sections on science, tech, health and business that I will be keeping a close eye on.
One thing I would like to note is the sheer amount of information overload and duplication (not just for news). Organizing, managing and keeping up is not getting any easier. I am sure over the next couple of years as the whole web 2.0 hoopla starts dying down, there will be a few sites which will emerge and become the standards. Will Newsvine be one of them? I think it has a good chance. Now to get more people hooked into the whole social media experiment and not just the techies and political pundits of the world.
Newsvine
Just wanted to bring up a new site called Newsvine. You can read more about it on TechCrunch, and an alternative opinion by Paul Kedrsoky. I haven’t started using it heavily yet, but its another source of news, and like Digg, and other sites, leverages the “social web”. It is a trend, which along with blogs and RSS, many of us will be following carefully. Will it work? I am not sure. I am always worried (and Digg is a great example) of stories with more depth getting buried.
That saids Newsvine is a lovely website, pleasing to read and has a chance, over time, to compete with Google News, BBC News, Digg and Memeorandum. Newsvine is also like a blog network in some ways, allowing users to contribute articles and essentially maintain a column which people can subscribe too. This is in addition to contributing articles a la Digg by a process they call seeding. Newsvine also has sections on science, tech, health and business that I will be keeping a close eye on.
One thing I would like to note is the sheer amount of information overload and duplication (not just for news). Organizing, managing and keeping up is not getting any easier. I am sure over the next couple of years as the whole web 2.0 hoopla starts dying down, there will be a few sites which will emerge and become the standards. Will Newsvine be one of them? I think it has a good chance. Now to get more people hooked into the whole social media experiment and not just the techies and political pundits of the world.
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