Discovering Newsvine

by Jason Preston on July 31, 2006

If you think any of this gibberish looks interesting, you should poke around and subscribe to my RSS feed to keep up with new content.

newsvine wallI’m a perfect example of why blogs actually do work. This summer, simply because of people’s blogs, I have:

  • Bought a book
  • Subscribed to a magazine, and
  • Signed up for three web services

The latest of these is Newsvine. After running across Mike Davidson’s blog (CEO Newsvine), I wound up poking around the Newsvine site a little bit. I never really took the time to figure out how it worked before.

So far it’s pretty neat, and it lets me find things like this:

Man Accused of Biting Off Rooster’s Head

NEW YORK — A man accused of biting the head off his pet rooster was arrested Friday and faces up to a year in prison if convicted, an animal protection spokesman said.

A neighbor had complained about a dead rooster near his Manhattan apartment and agents found the body of the beheaded rooster on a fire escape, said Joe Pentangelo, spokesman for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The rooster’s head was not located.

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