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I’m blogging today at the inaugural EconSM conference, produced by Rafat Ali’s ContentNext Media Network (parent of PaidContent).
This conference sold out to 500 + weeksk ago and features a day of panels featuring industry heavies (see list…

Call it a redesign. Call it Newsvine 2.0. Call it whatever you want, but today Newsvine is proud to announce the first major overhaul of our site since launching a little more than a year ago. It’s an exciting thing for the team and for the now 6…

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Newsvine Relaunch Today: Build Your Own News Site Seattle-based news site Newsvine will relaunch this afternoon with significant changes to the user experience. They’re calling the release “Evergreen.” Among the changes: like Netvibes, Pageflakes…

Yea, I have a problem.

As much as I love Newsvine I’m not sure what role it will have to play 10 years from now. I don’t thin that even Mike D would claim today to know that Newsvine or something like it will be a major player in the media machine in a decade. We have to wait and see.

But for right now the system is pretty good. It does encourage a far greater depth of knowledge and awareness than any other source I’ve come across. It does create a sense of community and the proof is in the results, as they say.

Certainly I feel far better informed than my friends and relatives who do not use Newsvine.

The notion of “citizen journalism” and the ideal of a vast army of observers and a huge collection of media to choose from is an ideal — and little more at this point. Sometimes you get lucky and someone is close to a major event — fortunately or not — on the inside. In cases like that you can get really good information – far better than the mass media coverage.

But those cases are rare for any number of reasons. Media will have to become far more ubiquitous and our ability to report and record it far more integrated into our culture and our world for it to create the bottom up revolution that so many see coming.

But cell phone video footage, like we saw after the VT shootings, could well be the tip of that iceberg. We just don’t know.

What we do know is that sites like Newsvine are there now, clearing a path and trying to create a new media in a new digital realm. It’s inspiring in a way – and I’ll certaily keep doing what I can to help them.

Been a big fan of Newsvine ever since its early stages. You work on the ESPN homepage completely changed my usage of that site (i.e. – from nothing to multiple times a day) and your blog is always interesting.

Please keep up the great work. You and your team push the boundaries when it comes to clean, concise and beautiful (in a simplistic way) user interface / web design.

Also, Ray, if you’re so adept at web designing, where’s your site with ~500,000 uniques a month? Wait, you’d need ideas to go along with those web design skills of yours. That might be a stretch…

Thanks everybody else on the thread who’s actually used the site. More good stuff soon, as always.

“The New York Times is beta testing My Times, which allows users to create a personal homepage with stories on their favorite topics and by their favorite writers” (from http://www.cio....le/print/102351)

– the only person who knows exact hits – to any worthy degree- is the Sites Owner!

– NewsVine keep up the good work