Most of you know about digg, the online peer-production news site. I’ve been using digg for well over a month now, and until today I’ve though that it was the best peer-production news site out there. Boy, was I wrong. I figured this out today when I went to see the SEOmoz’s 2006 Web 2.0 Awards, which pick the best Web 2.0 site in a certain category based on the number of peer nominations. While browsing the categories, I noticed the winners of the peer-production news category. Instead of seeing digg in first place, which I expected, I saw a site called Newsvine. Digg had made it to second place, yet this Newsvine site and somehow ousted digg in this category. This made me very interested, so I decided to check out Newsvine. After briefly exploring some of the site, I decided to join, which is of course free, to try out all of the features it has to offer. Within 30 minutes, I became obsessed. somehow, this little site had become even better than digg in my opinion, even though digg is still vastly more popular. Here are some of the features that showed me why:
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Aaron Freedman is a 16 year old who's very passionate and knowledgeable about technology and journalism. He enjoys working on his two main projects, 
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