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Over the past couple weeks, I have posted a few articles here about a news website called Newsvine. The reason I did that was that the site was still a private Beta, meaning that only those with invitations had access to the site.

Well, if you were at all curious… the wait is over.

Newsvine is officially public. If you go to newsvine.com you can now read through the news just like I have been for the past few weeks.

The charm of newsvine, and perhaps the addictive quality for some, is that the news it interactive. When you sign up for a free account, you can comment on articles, you can easily link to articles you have seen elsewhere on the web, and you can even join or start a chat right on the page of the article you just read. In addition to all of that, you are encouraged to add to “The Vine” by posting your own articles at your very own column. “Yourname”.newsvine.com. Mine is gregshead.newsvine.com.

Newsvine is attempting to create a place for “citizen journalism” by not only having easy to find articles from the AP and ESPN wires, sortable by many “tags” assigned to each one, but these AP articles are placed right next to the many member contributions. There are two separate columns, to better distinguish the source of your news, but I think it’s a cool feature that the site is so interactive, and integrated.

I will post most of my Apple Computer news, as well as Buffalo Bills and various other newsworthy articles there. You can book mark the site if you like, via the link given above, or, if you are a super techy type… there are RSS feeds available for my articles there as well. (Since you’re super techy, I’ll let you figure out where they are.)

I have been following and contributing to some interesting conversations in the science section of the site recently. You may want to stop there are read along. Or, as I mentioned, there have been a few exciting things from Apple recently as well.

So, it’s now available to all, and I just wanted to pass that along.

Check it out, and have fun reading. 🙂