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

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.

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 PurchaseSource: 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.

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...

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.

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 …

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 …