I haven't been around for a while, so I'm not sure how things are going on the 'Vine. Has the signal:noise ration gotten any better? It's sad that development has slowed so far down.

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Stories That Need To Get Off Of Front Page Already, #4291: Woman has good voice, sings on Idol.

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The death of the newspaper is a depressing thing to absorb, but what's much more disappointing to me is that I feel like news itself has been devalued.

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News that the Seattle P-I is looking for a buyer got us wondering if there might be a white knight out there somewhere in Seattle's technology ranks.

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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.

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What do you do, exactly? I am responsible for running Newsvine as well as all community news efforts at MSNBC.com. Mostly I design, write copy, product-plan, evangelize and order pizza that no one else in the office likes.

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People-powered news site Newsvine has seen enormous growth since its acquisition by msnbc.com last year, receiving 963 percent more registrations and 269 percent more unique visitors, msnbc.com has told Beet.TV.

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Today marks the launch of my second blog, and first new one in over four years: A House By The Park. Please head over and have a look-see! Why a second blog when I only post to Mike Industries a few times a month? Well, I'm building a house, together with Build LLC.

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So by all measures, I am the absolutely ideal customer for an Apple subnotebook. If they can't sell one to me, they have a problem. And unfortunately, I'm not buying one.

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The IT industry is full of characters willing to offer an opinion or clobber a rival over the head with an argument. We take a look back and pick out our favourite ten quotes of the year.

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In the news business today, there's old media, like newspapers and TV. There's new media, like blogs and Web sites.

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Q: What are your daily must-read sources of news and information (besides Newsvine, MSNBC and The Seattle Times)?

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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:

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Msnbc.com, the privately run news group started by Microsoft and NBC, has acquired social media website Newsvine for an undisclosed amount.Seattle-based Newsvine publishes stories from established media organisations alongside user-generated content, creating a 'citizen journalis …

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In his post this weekend, Rex Sorgatz points out that "mainstream media is hard".

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The sale of Newsvine to MSNBC.com is not the first time that a portfolio company of Second Avenue Partners has been sold to a media behometh this year.

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MSNBC.com, the joint venture of Microsoft and NBC, is purchasing Newsvine, a startup that enlists "citizen" journalists to post and comment on mainstream media stories, and write articles of their own.

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This is msnbc.com's first ever acquisition: MSNBC.com is pushing into the social news arena with the acquisition of Seattle-based Newsvine.The site, which combines professional and user-generated content, is one of a number of social news services, often mentioned alongside Dig …

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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - MSNBC.com has acquired social news media site Newsvine, which bridges the gap between traditional and new media. Newsvine displays news from news organizations, which is placed and added to by the Newsvine community.

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

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MSNBC Interactive has acquired the Seattle-based community news site Newsvine for an undisclosed sum. If you're not familiar with Newsvine, it features some rather sophisticated tools to manage user-generated content in a social setting.

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Online news site Newsvine, which launched in March 2006, was acquired by MSNBC.com, a fift-fifty joint venture between Microsoft and NBC.

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After using my iPhone for over two months now, I really have only three lingering annoyances with it. Two, which can hopefully be solved quickly via the magic of the lazyweb:

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Mike Davidson, the founder of this site, talks about why newspapers fail as community enablers, and that if they don't change, he's going to have them for lunch. "Any news organization that still considers themselves a newspaper, is not thinking about things the right way."

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When faced with an inbox of 100-400 messages, I usually find myself replying to the messages which are quickest to reply to, rather than which are most important to reply to.

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