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Help! Senior Citizen Being Held Hostage by Newsvine Group

I have had a long running battle with Groups and I really think there is a place for such things but not within the Greater Newsvine Community.

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The Vine Bears Blooms, Fruit, Nuts and Dingleberries

Since Calvin broached the subject I feel free to expand and expound on it somewhat.

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McCain's Prickly TIME Interview - TIME

Seems like Senator McCain didn't take his happy pills that morning. Imagine that John McCain answering the red phone at 3am......McCain at first seemed happy enough to do the interview. But his mood quickly soured.

A blogger takes office in Malaysia | csmonitor.com

Do you think this story might ever be about you, Killfile?Five years of blogging has brought Jeff Ooi a measure of notoriety. His biting posts on Malaysian politics sparked police investigations.A pro-government newspaper sued him for libel.

David Cohn: My Next Assignment, Hopefully A Lifelong Contribution to Journalism

So what's next? Spot Us will be a nonprofit to test a new business model - community funded journalism.

Citizen Journalism in 2007: A Recap

2008 is upon us—what better time for a progress report on citizen journalism? Over the past twelve months, investors shelled out, mainstream media perked up and thousands mobilized to share their news with the world. In short, 2007 marked citizen journalism's coming out.

Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned

Ambitions ran high when Wired joined forces in January with new media incubator NewAssignment.net to try a novel experiment in pro-am journalism.

Bush Deflects Criticism on Iraq War

President Bush took his critics to task Saturday for using the poor marks the Iraqi government received on a progress report this week as reason to argue that the war is lost.'

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Creative Crowdwriting: The Open Book (we got published)

Well, the Assignment Zero project actually bore some fruit. Even though I bailed in the end on writing the final article for our arm of the effort, Newsvine's contributors still got credit in the "Reported By" section. Just thought y'all would like to know...

Backfence Closes, Citizen Journalism a Failure

Seems like not only has Pete Cashmore come up with a solid and absolute definition of "Citizen Journalism", but after an exhaustive survey of the entire landscape, he's determined that it's a failure.

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