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Social Networks and Posting Effective Comments
Source: PMA Media Group

Create more traffic for your websites by commenting on other websites and posts. Once you have commented, promote those sites and web posts.

The whole idea of being a citizen journalist is should not be orientated to making money

The whole idea of being a citizen journalist is should not be orientated to making money. It is however to be ready to publish stories on your door step that simple get missed by the media or before they get to the scene of the news.

Howard Stern, Howard Stern…..saying goodbye to Howard Stern
Source: The Lang Report

Excerpt: DID you hear what Howard Stern said the other day about retiring when his contract expires in two years. "This is my swan song," he said.

Girl Handing Out Cough Drops Accused Of Selling Drugs At School
Source: News4Jax.com - Local News

File this under: You Must Be Crazy, Lady! For version other than print, click 'video' tab.

Chris Pirillo: How Can You be an Awesome Commenter?
Source: Chris Pirillo

According to Monica, the Internet has some amazing things for news. One of the things it's done that is awesome is to make news about the conversation.

You Too Can Be A Newsvine Censor

Let me start out by saying that I am against censorship in all of its forms. People should be allowed to speak. People should be allowed to say whatever they like. Certain places have rules, such as Newsvine, but those are community rules.

Comment Editing Goes Live

An early holiday present for Newsviners (or you could consider it a very belated holiday gift): comment editing is now live! Here's how it works:

Google News to publish agency stories
Source: journalism.co.uk

Google News has moved beyond simply linking to news stories by forging a deal with four news agencies to publish their stories.

Huge Security Hole in Citibank's Online Account Center
Source: everyday observations of regular people

I discovered a huge security hole in Citibank's online Account center that lets coComment publish any messages you send to Citibank.

Newsvine Bandwagons: Get On or Get Run Over

I have been unable of late to spend as much time on NewsVine as I would prefer, owing primarily (I tell myself) to the required activities of work and school.

Post Registration Commenting is Live

This weekend, we launched a small but important feature that we've been meaning to get to for a long time: post-registration commenting.

How Men Leave Comments on the Web
Source: dashes.com

First one to solve this issue gets a gold star.

Live Scoreboards and Game Commenting Launched!

Alert baseball fans have probably noticed the MLB Scoreboard link that has made its way onto the left side of the screen recently.

Newsvine - Why I Can't Get Behind Comments

I know that right before we (yes, we) went live, I wrote an article about the meta nature of Newsvine at the time, noting the omnipresence of Newsvine-centric material.

Negative Comments

In the past few days, someone posted an opinion piece with which I did not agree. I found the opinion to be ludicrous, biased, not based on fact.

Digg's New Commenting System

As some people have noticed, Digg launched a new commenting system yesterday, and it's quite nice. We like it a lot. Why do we like it? Well, cosmetics aside, it's eerily similar to what we've been drawing up over here.

Newsvine: Are you Gabrielle Reece or Michael Jordan

Growing up, I used to play a lot of basketball at the local park (I'm sure this is not a shocking revelation). One of the games we used to play was called "Alley Oop," though I've heard it called "Tips" or "21" before.

Newsvine Needs Notification

The short of it: Newsvine is sorely lacking pingback functionality.

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