For some reason, Newsvine didn’t grab me when I tried it last October, after its acquisition by MSNBC.
But now. Wow. I’m a posting, arguing, discussing, debating fool. Is it just as enlightening, yet aggravating as KTVZ.COM’s own article comments? Yep. But with a much wider circle of folks, who “seed” the site with articles from all over on every topic imaginable.
And then… you discuss. It’s that simple. They have wonderful tools to help track multiple article discussion threads. You get your own “column” page where all the comments you’ve posted, articles you’ve seeded etc. are collected.
And it’s a social network – like the comments someone made? Make them a friend, follow what they have to say around the site on other issues!
As I said, I’m hooked. Oy. It tops MSNBC’s article-comment forums, and USA Today’s, and … nah, it doesn’t top ours. But I’d love to use that way of blossoming the comments we do run!
It turns reading the news into a social experience like none other. I love it!
It’s like I read in one of my books recently – somebody took issue with the maxim that “Content is king.”
“Conversation is king,” they said. “Content is just something to talk about.”
Yeppers!;-)
Leave it to Barney 