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A Supplementary Newsvine Primer

Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:04 PM EST
By Brian Ford (Clipped by Chasing)

Four years ago I wrote A Newsvine Primer because I thought it would be helpful to new members who were wary about jumping into the deep end of the social-news pool.

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Racism, Party, and the Problem with Absolutes

Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:17 PM EDT

Some on the left have called me a Republican, some on the right have called me a Democrat, and frankly I don't see why I should care, so long as I'm left to decide for myself what I am, absent the need for approval.

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There But For The Grace: The Zombie Scourge of Homelessness

Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:17 PM EDT

You see them on streetcorners, looking forlorn, and worse for the wear. Sometimes the more enterprising of them will offer to wash your windshield at a red light - usually with dubious results. Others pester. Some just moan.

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Album Review: Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:56 PM EDT

Clearly the best thing Britt Daniel ever did was to appear on Veronica Mars.

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Zeigeist: Gooey Synth Pop Goodness

Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:21 PM EDT

Many people unwittingly became fans of Zeigeist (just the one 't', thank you!) when someone, somewhere, probably in Sweden, stuck a track onto a leaked copy of The Knife's Silent Shout called 'F As In Knife'.

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Album Review: Interpol - Our Love To Admire

Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:39 PM EDT

I had to take my dog to the vet, though I pretty much already knew the outcome. It was not bad, nor good, it was just what I expected: he suffers from allergies. A round of antibiotics and he'll be fine, I'm simply out a couple of hundred bucks.

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Unconflicted Candy

Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:10 PM EDT

There is a boy named Donny. He has Down's Syndrome. He is about my age. He is playful, and a parrot. He has the thinking skills of dumb AI. He is sweet. His hair is always messy. He is always laughing, and pointing, and sometimes he dances. Like "Cats". Honest.

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Interview: Body Farms and Buzzards

Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:42 AM EDT

"Body Farms" have received much popular attention of late due to books, movies, and television, but the attention given to the new Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (in San Marcos) was of a decidedly less glamorous sort, when the initial site was deep-sixed over concern …

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Creeping Evil and Low Expectations

Thu May 24, 2007 10:48 PM EDT

I don't really have that many friends. Too true.

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