Newsvine must go "offline" to benefit us all -or- Pimp Newsvine Offline

I think the recent changes to the author pages will do some great things for the social scene, retention, and participation. Being able to talk to each other and track friends only makes the community better, a good product will prevail. Good content is up to us.

I wear mine to the bar every few weeks, and I make sure to mention it a few times too. I don't know about the ladies loving it, but I still represent in style.

Uh. How do I get this Vine shirt? I am a shirt whore and will pimp all schwag. :-D

Yes, yes. Are these self-made t-shirts? I would love to pimp newsvine offline with a kick-ass newsvine t-shirt.

A Newsvine T-Shirt?

I have the same problem (don't get time to post often). And I honestly don't post enough on my own blog, much less Newsvine. Possibly, more beneficial news bloggers could be incorporated with Newsvine if a system could be created (maybe with import of authorized RSS feeds).

I think that an increasing number of valuable posters would be very beneficial; however I think most people will simply seed links to Newsvine without commenting on them (which I believe is not what Newsvine should be used for, unless a better and separate UI for reading these seeds is created).

I know the feeling. My parents have gone on holiday and they asked me whether I wanted the paper to continue to be delivered to our house.
I pointed out about Newsvine and how I pick up most of the technology news that interests me, as well as stuff about the UK and the US so didn't really need the paper and they were surprised that a site like this exists.
They though the best you could get was sort of like BBC News. Once they're back my dad's asked me to show him it so there might be some interest there from an audience which isn't quite used to things like this.

I know the feeling. My parents have gone on holiday and they asked me whether I wanted the paper to continue to be delivered to our house.
I pointed out about Newsvine and how I pick up most of the technology news that interests me, as well as stuff about the UK and the US so didn't really need the paper and they were surprised that a site like this exists.
They though the best you could get was sort of like BBC News. Once they're back my dad's asked me to show him it so there might be some interest there from an audience which isn't quite used to things like this.

As much as I love Newsvine, I don't think I'll ever stop reading the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Even though they're not on the cutting edge of news, newspapers have the luxury of time and the ability to offer perspective on more broad and different aspects of my world.

Although, the more Newsvine grows, the more we will see different audiences participating and that can only lead to greater exposure in the offline world as well as more interesting content for us!

Even though they're not on the cutting edge of news, newspapers have the luxury of time and the ability to offer perspective on more broad and different aspects of my world.

I'd agree there - they're definately not redundant yet. I read one every day on the way to college to catch up and read a different style of srticle to what is found online.
The thing is I'm very interested in technology news which newsvine is great for at the moment.
The paper my parents get is more tabloid like and although has some interesting articles, it's not quite as good as reading it from a couple of sources online - for example I read bbc news on top of newsvine to make sure I get UK news as its not quite as prominent on here as the news from US is.
Plus by reading around I have the option to seed newsvine so others can read these articles.

That kind of irritates me too, actually, but just seems to come with the territory after any update to the system.

So, The first rule of Newsvine, is we don't talk about Newsvine?

And the second rule of Newsvine, is to repeat the first rule of Newsvine, and pass it on?

A brief peak at commontimes.org suggested to me that it's populated by the same insane Bush-haters that are dragging down Newsvine.

geez rockman needed a thread to lash out at the vine? maybe you should get more of your bush loving friends over here.. i think the problem is about 29% of the public agrees with you so it is easy to think public sites are biased.
I hate all politicians but mostly agree with small government conservatives..without the christian rules.

I don't totally understand why people think there is too much meta content. Percentage wise there is very little to be honest, as even just on my watchlist there is only, on average, a 1-3% amount of Newsvine content (per day).

Heaven forbids I lash out on Bush. I mean he's just a defenseless puppy, right?

insane Bush-haters

indeed. Because shouting "bring-it-on" to Terrorists and incite them to triple their attacks isn't insane. It's just part of the stay the course strategy.

Newsvine right now is the bomb diggity. We must continue to have a quality over quantity of users policy, to keep our great community. It's so nice to be able to write comments back and forth with people who read about current events and history on a constant basis, as opposed to a few forum-posters who watch 1 "favorite" cable-news, and base their opinions over their favorite anchors (i.e. O'Reilly, Chris Matthews), and small 1-page articles.

Let me use different words to befriend our beloved minority:

"we shall fight spamming over there so that we don't have to fight them over here here"

"these spammers hate our freedom"

"We will smoke em out"

ps.

"Saddam"

Here's my question - why spend time on a thread by throwing out negatives about Newsvine without offering any solutions on how to make it better? If you prefer a different news site, thank you for sharing it, but talk about what exactly makes it "better" than Newsvine - rather than just saying that it is better. Also, if you are finding too many people with one political view or another on Newsvine, why not invite people with the views you would like to see more of so that you can populate the Vine with people whose views you care to see.

How does Newsvine not cover the news? It gets seeds from major news sources as well as has members seed their own links. You can use your watchlist to filter content so you are only seeing articles you wish to see.

Newsvine has some problems - but every site does. I am constantly letting the Newsvine staff know of things that I wish to see improved upon. If it's an issue I think the general community should know about I'll post my own article, or I'll participate in the discussion on an existing one. I think that it is healthy for any community to have open discussions about that community and any issues (positive or negative) they see in it. If you don't wish to see/read these articles - then don't. That's the beauty about Newsvine, you can choose what you read and participate in and what you don't.

This article is about getting the word about Newsvine out there - and getting quality people to participate in quality discussions. I have a hard time seeing a problem with that.

try commontimes. They actually cover the news.

Can't say I like the format that much. The site looks ugly... like ugly enough that an amateur like myself could improve it considerably in about an hour. Now granted, content is most important... but I already get that here... in a much nicer looking package.

I think you have to babysit Milkdud for a week to get one.

Indeed... more and farther than anyone else so far...