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Online discussion boards, forums, and even comment areas on blogs are a great way to debate current issues.

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by Áine MacDermot you look in the eyes of people to see if they feel the way you feel, they hide themselves, and so you don't find out.

Open Help Thread #005 : The Beginning of a New Chapter for Newsvine

Everyone by now knows that MSNBC.com has acquired Newsvine.com. This is MSNBC.com's only acquisition in its 11-year history.

Citizen News Site Becomes MSNBC.com's First Purchase
Source: clickz.com

Newsvine, a "participatory news" site that allows people to write articles, link to mainstream news stories, discuss the news, and earn money by writing their own ad-sponsored columns, is now owned by MSNBC.com.

Newsvine Fiction: Scoop Fights Off the Allegations - Part 1

The first call came from Aine. "They are on to you. They know you are not who you say you are." Me: "They know that my parents are Killfile and...

Fiction Game: Round 5 - The Newsvine Glitches

This time I'm going to tweak the rules a bit. With all the recent Newsvine burps, farts and glitches - or whatever is going on - it's just crying out to be satirized or, better yet, made into part of a fictional story.

What in the World is a Yooper?

Yoopers are kind of an odd mixture of people, and watching them in an objective sort of way (and let's not forget, I'm one of them), they remind me of what you would get if you put "The Red Green Show," "Northern Exposure," and a strange and bewildering twist of world cultures in …

MacDermot's State of the Union Address

My Fellow Americans, in this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps wise to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in, for it is clear that we can no longer 'Stay the Course' while our fellow Americans continue to …

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