I got into the beta for Newsvine last night. I haven’t played with it too much, but if nothing else it does present a nicer layout than most other wire-service news portals. I’ll leave the full Web 2.0 rant to Zeldman, but I find their use of RSS a little redundant. Sure, I can subscribe to all my news using their feeds, but isn’t Newsvine itself an aggregator? Isn’t it a bit like subscribing to a feed of a feed? Don’t get me wrong, I love my feeds, but I think they have their place. Lately, if it’s a site I’m just going to visit every day anyway, I’ve started unsubscribing to its feed and putting it into my “dailies” folder.
Anyway, I’ll be playing around with Newsvine over the next week or so. If you want an invitation, comment here and I’ll toss you one. If you want to read a preview of it, there’s a good write-up here.