last exit for the lost

A good friend has recently pointed me toward a relatively new news service called Newsvine, which advertises itself as "A place where anyone can read, write, and influence the news." Its unique platform allows its users to write their own articles as well as "seed" articles from other news sources. These articles, both original and seeded, are tagged by the user for proper categorizing, and may be recommended and commented upon by other users. Here's a screenshot of the front page: Each user has their own personalized "column" at .newsvine.com. For example my column is at: rfreeman.newsvine.com and looks something like this: Newsvine also allows you to create "watch lists" of tag items and authors. And, of course, there is an RSS feed, as well as a JSS feed with which I plan to do some experimenting. Newsvine is still in its beta stage, and as such is not available to the public at-large. If any of you bloggers or news junkies want to take a crack at this, drop me an email and I will send you an invite. Welcome to news 2.0!