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Mixed media galleries, artist: Nikki Whiteley\n
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How far will the U.S. government go to combat illegal-drug use, and is the War on Drugs worth the cost?\n
(tags: war-on-drugs cannabis marijuana medical-marijuana law drug-policy prohibition criminalization eradication propaganda aine-newsvine aine-macdermot)\n
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In almost every venue where the Bushites defend the War on Terror, they mention that the terrorists hate "our way of life" or that our military is defending "our way of life"… it irritates me.\n
(tags: american-exceptionalism monoculture moral-values corporatism poverty ethnicity democracy disparity economics socio-economics classism culture globalization washington-consensus marginalization hurricane-katrina welfare commonwealth aine-macdermot aine-newsvine)\n
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For me, Newsvine is both a source for my consumption of news as well as a place to bring in stories from other sources and gives the public the power to publish their own articles to a growing audience of news-consuming public. It's kind of a give-and-take form of citizen journalism.\n
(tags: newsvine aine-macdermot aine-newsvine journalism citizen-journalism news media freedom-of-press censorship democracy public-journalism)\n
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By now, the positions in this controversy over same-sex marriage are familiar. For its supporters, same-sex marriage is a matter of civil rights and fundamental fairness, of equality before the law. For opponents, it's perceived as an attempt to win official endorsement of homosexuality by hijacking a traditional heterosexual institution. Religious and moral objections to marriage equality are nothing new.\n
(tags: same-sex-marriage glbt marriage-equality human-rights civil-rights law court-cases constitution civil-unions human-sexuality sexual-orientation psychology psychiatry homosexuality aine-macdermot aine-newsvine)\n
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This is just a list of blogs, I don't have any affiliation with any of these blogs or the bloggers who write them, in fact, it's doubtful that any of these bloggers have ever heard of me, although I may have commented on a post here or there on an irregular basis.\n
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Digital discrimination, extortion, or legislative gamesmanship: What happens may be up to you.\n
(tags: internet net-neutrality accessibility networks telecoms broadband law isps congress aine-macdermot aine-newsvine)\n
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Beliefs of religious groups, some Old World pagan cultures, and non-theistic ethical systems, like Humanism, differ greatly in their concepts of deity, other beliefs and practices, but one principle is accepted by almost everyone: it is the Ethic of Reciprocity.\n
(tags: reciprocity ethics the-golden-rule religion egalitarianism human-rights conflicts atrocities christianity judaism islam bahai hindu history tolerance paganism religious-pluralism diversity aine-macdermot aine-newsvine)\n
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A somewhat tongue-in-cheek State of the Union address… if I were President.\n
(tags: democracy egalitarianism imperialism corporatism liberalism propaganda sotu-address aine-macdermot aine-newsvine divisiveness politics)\n
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I've never been to journalism school, but the earliest journalists, who were little more than gossips, ballad singers, and dissident pamphleteers, hadn't either. That said, having been part of this thing we all call the Internet for well over a decade now, having been a blogger before there was software for blogging, and having worked with computers, in general, for just over thirty years, I just might know a few things about the online world.\n
(tags: journalism citizen-journalism freedom-of-press constitution watchdog politics accountability credibility infotainment history media newsvine aine-macdermot aine-newsvine)\n
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Yoopers are kind of an odd mixture of people, and watching them in an objective sort of way (and let's not forget, I'm one of them), they remind me of what you would get if you put "The Red Green Show," "Northern Exposure," and a strange and bewildering twist of world cultures in a blender and hit "Puree," but they are some of the nicest people you'd ever like to meet, and they are unlike any other people anywhere else in the world.\n
(tags: aine-newsvine yoopers michigan upper-peninsula pasties yooperland culture trolls deer-camp yooper-scooper alcohol aine-macdermot ethnicity robert-traver mackinac-bridge apple-knockers heikki-lunta sorels choppers da-yoopers john-voelker jeff-daniels escanaba-in-da-moonlight)\n
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The 'Newsvine Help' Group is a public group dedicated to finding and providing help for using Newsvine. You do not need to be a member of the Newsvine Help Group in order to participate in discussion threads or to ask questions about Newsvine since this is a public group.\n
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Tagging and linking to things on the Web are organic ways of organizing information different from current categorization schemes that were invented in the offline world (such as the library card catalogue), and these new methods of categorization allow flexibility based on two units: the link, which can point to anything on the Web, and the tag, which is a way of attaching descriptive labels to links.\n
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A tutorial about RSS feeds, feedreaders, and how they can help you organize and keep up with information and news on the web.\n
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The prevailing narrative on globalization usually tells a story of transformation initiated from the west or north, and usually the scholars and proponents and opponents of globalization choose to study international trade, geopolitics, economic systems, the environment, human rights, the legal profession, or even constitutional or administrative law. Such discussions typically ignore the narratives of ordinary people…\n
(tags: ethnoscapes aine-macdermot aine aine-newsvine culture ideology globalization ethnicity arjun-appadurai mediascapes technoscapes finanscapes ideoscapes)\n
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Here is a short list of Election Day resources available to voters – print it, copy it, forward it, use it. Let's make sure every vote is counted and the results reflect the will of the people.\n
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If you have a question and can't seem to find the answer, feel free to drop it in the comments thread of this article.\n
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In a commodity (or Market) economy, status is accorded to those who have accumulated the most. In a Gift Economy, status is accorded to those who give the most away to others.\n
(tags: gift-economy aine-macdermot aine-newsvine egalitarianism generosity liberalism eros logos creative-commons free-market market-economies economics economy)\n
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Content guidelines for my Newsvine Groups.\n
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If you have a question about any of the features or how to get something done here at Newsvine, and you can't seem to find the answer, feel free to drop it in the comments thread of this article.\n
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I participated in an online chat with Dr. Peter Fallon and his class, JOUR 353/453 "The Alternative Media" at Roosevelt University in Chicago.\n
(tags: newsvine citizen-journalism blogging aine-newsvine aine-macdermot alternative-media j-school)\n
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If you have a question about any of the Newsvine features or how to do something here at Newsvine, and you can't seem to find the answer, feel free to drop it in the comments thread of this article.\n
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A tutorial about how to "seed" news into Newsvine.\n
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Having been online for over a decade now, what bothers me is not the medium, but the lack of attention paid to how that medium may perpetuate misogyny, sexism, and violence against women.\n
(tags: women blogging feminism harassment bullies internet aine-newsvine newsvine kathy-sierra conduct behavior anonymity code-of-honor)\n
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One of the real challenges we face, I think, is to extend the Newsvine presence and bring this community into the journalism conversation, where we might grow the Vine into something other than bloggers and conversationalists and opinion-spouters (not that there's anything wrong with that) to enrich the community through good web journalism.\n
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Newsvine Groups are a great way to interact with other people on Newsvine, sharing common interests, and finding specialized content that may be difficult to find otherwise.\n
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Are you confused about any of Newsvine's features, or just aren't sure about whether or how to post certain kinds of content?\n
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"I told you she was weird." 8 Things About Me\n
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This was written as part of the first annual Molly Ivins Philosophers Guild Satire Day in honor of the late Molly Ivins.\n
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You do not have to join the group in order to get help, just ask your questions on this or any future Open Help Thread.\n
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Purpose: To coordinate the gathering of news, the generation of story ideas, the scheduling and assignment of coverage, and the delivery of news material to the production team for all Newsvine Assignment Desk projects.\n
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The gap between wealthy and poor is quite wide in most places. The wealthiest 20% of the world’s population consumes 76.6% of the world’s goods while 80% of humanity gets the remainder.\n
(tags: poverty disparity economy washington-consensus nvad labor employment unions wages ceo-compensation deprivation aine-newsvine)\n
