Newsvine.com, a new website that combines newswire feeds, user-submitted pointers to news and personal columns is now open for the public. I've been beta-testing the site for awhile and find it stable, easy to use and not bad to look at. While I'm not dumping all my other news sources for newsvine, I'll keep a close eye on it.

To read about the features and the journey to the public launch, here's the official launch notice on the Newvine blog.

You can read my own column at: http://onecog2many.newsvine.com/

Note: They don't have a region setup for Kitchener/Waterloo or any place in this area yet. For now I've been flagging local stories with the tag "region-of-waterloo"... it would be great if others did this as well. Then you could read local news by visiting the URL:

http://www.newsvine.com/region-of-waterloo