Around the Vine

You might have noticed the redesign on the blog (yes, you, my singular reader here *grin*). I have to admit I haven’t done much real blogging here in the last year or so, but that’s not to say I’ve been slacking either. I spend a lot of my day over at Newsvine, adding content to my column there, answering people’s questions, commenting on other people’s content, cleaning up the content on the Groups I’ve created, etc.

Right now, they’re running an interesting sort of contest called the “Newsvine Question of the Day” and the first question is:

Question: How does Hillary Clinton’s entrance into the 2008 presidential race most impact both the overall shape, as well as the final outcome of the race? Ends: Tuesday night, 12am Pacific. Format: Newest answers at the top. Names hidden while contest is in progress.

Whoever gets the most votes on their answer has a chance to win a new iPod Nano with a Nike + iPod Sport kit. Your identity is kept anonymous, so people vote based solely on the content of your answer. Mine isn’t getting many votes, but that’s alright… btw, your answers are limited to a maximum of 150 words.

I’d also like to share with you these two recent articles that actually involved “me” (not bragging, just sharing)…

16 Jan 07 : Random Act of Vineness Award
11 Jan 07 : Interview: Aine with the Old Fogey

And my friend, Lughshand, snuck in and joined the site back in December, but I didn’t see him there until just the other day when I noticed he’d posted a poem to the Newsvine Poets Society. Sneaky bugger. *grin*

Oh, and btw, all of my friends who are involved in Second Life, might want to take a look at the Second Life Group at Newsvine. I’ve been posting news about Second Life there, along with six other members. It’s my way of keeping up with what’s going on with Steller, MacB, and Crazy Canuck (and I think Steller may be the only one who is there everyday)… and I must admit, I missed almost all of that. One of these days I’ll get new hardware and be able to pop in to visit, and then I’m sure I’ll be truly amazed at what Philip Rosedale and the rest of his crew have been developing since we last spoke in 2003-2004 (? might have been even earlier than that, and I’m thinking maybe even 2002) at 3DVRWeb. Seems like ages ago now, and it’s likely he doesn’t even know who I am anymore, but I’m glad to see the ideas we discussed being implemented in his world. I like to think I had a hand in seeding some of those ideas into his brain. *grin* I was especially pleased about the announcement that the SL client was to become Open Source. The server software is headed that way too… eventually.

Update: Calvin Tang showed up in the comments here a few minutes ago. Obviously he’s got a feed with “newsvine” as the keyword (so do I!). *grin*