Entress did not know the value of the Newsvine acquisition, but he said that the startup's audience -- because it actively comments on news articles, posts them to the site or directly covers news events -- would be considered valuable.

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Davidson's latest toy, Newsvine, is a bit more addictive, and his geek stripes are becoming more pronounced.

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A bunch of different manipulations of the popular Myspace. Mike D's myspace is in there as well.

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I just recieved this email from Dreamhost. It seems that they've leaked 3500 FTP account passwords somehow.

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Conquoring Technoratti for Dummies

It's not much of a secret that some of the users at Newsvine are technically challenged. Hmm, there's not even any reason to pretend, for technically terrible, yours truely comes instantly to mind. It is probably a safe bet, that few could be worse than me.

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Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain's staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by NewsVine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here).

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Ok, maybe not that Jesus, but who knows (e-mail exchange on the right).Some good stuff has been happening around here lately though. Certainly not the second coming, but enough to warrant a post:

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Newsvine's own Mike Davidson is quoted in this CSM piece about social networking news sites. Mike gives a nod to traditional media: Obviously, established media companies aren't going away, and their role is very much appreciated in the new media world

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On Live TV Today...

(From Mike) -- Just a quick note that I'll be appearing live on G4TV's "Attack of the Show" today at 7pm EDT.

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Or, at least... blogger voyeurism at it's best.

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