Newsvine!
There’s this thing, see. It’s called Newsvine. It’s a site on the internet where people can interact all 21st Century-style with “the news.” You can write your own stories. You can “seed” links to stories at existing websites (mainstream, not-so-mainstream, blogosphere, you name it). You can comment on the stories of others and get comments on your own stuff. Eventually they’re supposed to be implementing an ad program and possibly paying their contributors (a little) via those revenues, even.
So, courtesy of Patita (courtesy of someone else) I wound up with an invite and signed up. I’m experimenting with it but it seems at least a little bit cool. And it’s more what I want out of the “writing for the internet” thing, in general, than blogging. “How so?” you ask. Well, it gives me an outlet that other people are using, too, so it’s not so incumbent upon me to produce daily content to keep people coming back. There’s always new stuff to read over there and I’m not the one who had to make it. It’s perfect for my lazy ways!
Anyway, you should check it out just to see what all the noise is about. And if the concept of it intrigues you, let me know and I’ll drop an invite on you.
Oh, and in case you care to read what I’m writing over there, check the Newsvine Content page of this here blog thing, over there (→) in the sidebar. That page holds a little hunk o’ javascript that Newsvine provides its authors that essentially syndicates their headlines. So do the click thing and see what you can see from me.