Heard it on the Newsvine: First impressions

Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman of Hypergene have a great look at NewsVine, a new participatory journalism website currently in Beta. It's invite only at the moment (and I haven't gotten one yet), but from what I've read at Hypergene, it looks pretty slick. I haven't heard anything about the site yet.

From Hypergene Media Blog:

Newsvine offers a refreshing philosophy that has been missing in online news sites: Let the story not be an end in itself but a starting point for conversation and aggregation of content and different perspectives.

It’s not just a slick looking news site. It’s a site that depends on your participation. On Newsvine, you can not only read stories but comment, vote for, suggest stories from the web (seeding) or, if sufficiently motivated, write your own.

It’s a similar idea that we wrote about in Amazoning the News in 2001. Though the idea has made the rounds to newsrooms around the globe, Mike Davidson and team are unique: They did something about it:

"Amazoning The News is something my boss at Disney showed me about three years ago maybe, and you could actually consider it the first seed for this idea… It was the first article I read which got me thinking along these lines.”


– Mike Davidson

Solution Watch also has a great look at Newsvine.

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