Posted on: May 4th, 2007 by Daniel 1 Comment Welcome! If you’re new here, you may want to sub­scribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

I don’t know if there are any Newsvine read­ers out there, but if you spend any time at all read­ing The New York Times, CNN, ESPN, or really any major news ser­vice, this is a good place for you. It is a social news site, that pushes arti­cles that are voted on by other mem­bers to the ‘top’, much like Digg.com or red​dit.com does. You can also sub­scribe to ‘tags’, and have those show up on a custom news page that only shows arti­cles related to say, Atlanta, or foot­ball, or any­thing in between.

Most of these social-​type news sites seem to cater to younger audi­ences, or the tech crowd. For obvi­ous rea­sons, this can be quite a turn-​off to most people. For­tu­nately, Newsvine (at least up to this point) has avoided to really be asso­ci­ated with that type of gang.

Another great thing about the site is that anyone can con­tribute news or op/ed type arti­cles to the site. These are also up for voting, so well-​written essays by mem­bers of the site can be found along­side break­ing news from CNN or opin­ion pieces from the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. Anyway, Newsvine recently relaunched, adding dozens of new improve­ments to an already fan­tas­tic site.

I rec­om­mend you check it out – poke around and read not only the main­stream news on there, but the columns by the con­trib­u­tors to the site. Any newsvin­ers can find my account here. If you’re a member, add me as a friend.