Alright. I’ve written my first Newsvine article, Cultivating intellectual discourse on the Internet. This is largely in response to the aforementioned article. I added a huge chunk of my Urbis post to the second half of my article, but the article in toto is a lot more detailed. I encourage you to please read the article, give feedback via Newsvine comments and vote if you really like it. That’ll help move it “up the ‘Vine.”

So far I’m impressed with Newsvine. It manages to weed out the spammers by having all new members prove their worth, which I am trying to do now. People have incredible insights posted, and its reputation system is almost exactly what I have been looking for. Check out its Leaderboard to see what statistics they choose to measure.