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Five steps to wrangling an online community
Source: oldmedianewtricks.com

Do you allow users to post material on your site? If you are the community manager of a Web site that does, ask for a raise. If you're the community manager's boss, give that person a raise … now.

Don't kill your television: A glimpse of the future of video on Newsvine?
Source: msnbc.com

The video should be big and crisp but reliably load at the speed with which NBC News crews deploy to cover stories around the world.

Newsvine Fiction: Old MacDonald Had a Farm… And On that Farm He Had Some Newsviners

Note: I don't actually have children - though I keep the child in me quite alive - but if I did have a girl I bet she would be a lot like this

Newsvine is now 'The Man' - Get used to the potshots. There'll be more!

It seems that Newsvine has suddenly become 'The establishment'. Disgruntled 'ex-contributers' will now feel more emboldened, (embiggened :¬)) and so much more justified, in attacking the newly turned traitor for no other reason than the perceived turning. The vindictive, foul mo …

In Deep: Seattle Entrepreneur Calvin Tang Carries on Family Tradition
Source: nwasianweekly.com

Entrepreneurship runs in the Tang family in Bellevue, and so do the uncommon personal qualities of patience and resilience.

Playing Gotcha With Hillary

"You know, Tim, this is where everybody plays gotcha. It makes a lot of sense. What is the governor supposed to do? He is dealing with a serious problem. We have failed, and George Bush has failed." --- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, 10/30/07 Democratic Debate

In the final moments of the 10/30/07 Debate: Hillary Fumbles….Lisaed Scores!

After the excitement of watching one of our own Killfile do us proud on his MSNBC interview with Chris Jansing, I tuned into the 10/30/07 democratic debate this time with a bit more interest than for previous debates.

Newsvine Hits the "Big Time"

And by "big time," I mean we're entering the world of the mainstream media.

I'm publicly calling some people out.

I'd like to try something new. There are a lot of folks around here who have interesting things to say. I'd be interested in hearing about the following subjects from the following people:

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.

MSNBC Goes Local, Social With Newsvine Buy
Source: Technology News: technewsworld.com

MSNBC, one of the largest news sites on the Web, is buying a startup that specializes in user-ranked news and local community reporting.

Msnbc.com Acquires Newsvine
Source: CNN

MSNBC Interactive News LLC has acquired Seattle-based Newsvine Inc., an industry-leading site that pioneered the social media and participatory news space.

A Beginner's Guide to Hunting the Elusive RAV Branch

As a Newsvine "Chosen One" with a full branch, I tend to enjoy the perks; the better parking spaces, the stock options, the in-home Swedish massages...

A Review of Newsvine
Source: Ohmynews International

If one could say that the most important achievement of citizen journalism is the transformation of readers from consumers of news to producers of news, then the existence of Newsvine (www.newsvine.com) is peculiar, as only 1-2 percent of its participants write their own articles.

How You Can "Edit" Comments Even Though Newsvine Has No Edit Option

This started out as an email to a friend... then I thought about posting it to fiction writers since I was advising them for our fiction writing exercises that it's good for all - our eyes, the writers in that people are more likely to read them, etc - to have white space (i.e.

American Idol Uses My Bush Baby

Last night on American Idol, the nation's most watched show on television, a contestant was brought on stage and apologized to by Simon Cowell. During his audition, the contestant was likened to an animal called a 'bush baby' (a nickname for a Tarsier Monkey).

The Life Aquatic with Calvin Tang
Source: CalvinTang.com

Newsvine's resident conflict moderator captures a great series of photos which depict a "Stubby Squid" as it changes color. Very nice.

Newsvine Announces New Barack Obama Section on Front Page, Replaces Science

SEATTLE -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Feb. 13, 2007 -- Newsvine , the popular Social News website, announced today that they would be adding a Font Page section dedicated solely to Presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

News 2.0: personalization + participation = brand
Source: minimediaguy.org

A newspaper is a manufacturing business. Each day it produces thousands of copies of what is today a printed product that must be distributed to subscribers.

Possible Calvin Tang Nemesis to Appear on "The Apprentice"
Source: nbc.com

If James isn't Calvin's arch-rival, I am sorely disappointed. I demand a loin-cloth death match with assorted weaponry.

NFL Picks of the Week: Wild Card Week and Fantasy Loose Ends

It's the PLAYOFFS!!! Is there a more exciting time than the NFL playoffs? I think not. We have a solid slate of games this week.

Interview: Calvin Tang - What's the future for news personalization?
Source: ojr.org

OJR interviews Calvin Tang, co-founder of Newsvine, about the status of "Daily Me" applications and how his site is using technology to involve readers more intimately with the news.

Co-Founder of Newsvine creates SexVine

Calvin Tang, Co-founder of newsvine who describes himself as the company's face to the community has provoked outrage amongst religious groups today by launching Newsvine's first ever Sex group.

InfoWorld Proclaims Apple Customer Neglect !

I was perusing through my RSS feeds today and came across this article in InforWorld: Open Sources | InfoWorld | An ongoing saga of Apple's customer neglect | October 17, 2006 09:32 PM | By Dave Rosenberg.

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