Play The News Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Think the news is boring? Well here is a site that may change your mind. It is a community driven experience – imagine fantasy sports meets the evening news. Roleplaying, prediction of real world events and more are combined into a new fun learning experience.
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Blosker, a very strange social news site [NSFW] Posted: 3 years ago by norequest
Very interesting, very different social news site for strange, funny, scandalous and generally non-boring news.
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Odd News from Around the World (compiled from various newswires) Posted: 3 years ago by susiesunshine
Silly & wierd news clips from around the world - Ex. A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount in the afternoon.
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The online virtual news Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
News At Seven automatically gathers news with relevant images, videos and opinions from blogs and combines them into a virtual newscast.
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Meet Scott -- outside of Plime, the most important person in the news biz Posted: 2 years ago by hisidea
Scott Moore is in charge of news at Yahoo! Broadcast television still reaches more people in a single hour; 6 million viewers at a time will tune in to the CBS Evening News. But over the course of a month, the online portals are providing news to more people.
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Mine Explosion Kills 78, Rescue Efforts Continue Posted: 3 years ago by indierockcafe
As of 3:30 pm PST, Russian officials say 78 bodies of miners have been recovered from the mine site explosion in Siberia, but fear casualities will increase.
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Bad News Robot Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
No one likes to give bad news. What if there was a better way to give out bad news? What if there was a robot that could tell people things they didn't want to hear?
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Man With One Leg Kills Sex Offender Dating His Ex-Wife Posted: 3 years ago by indierockcafe
From story:
"He chose a 42-inch katana, a Japanese samurai sword, and went inside to confront Lee Alexander, a 25-year-old ranch hand from Polk County who was convicted in 2000 of a lewd and lascivious act on a person under 16. Less than 15 minutes later, Alexander was dead."
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Rupert Murdoch to charge to view News Corp's online news Posted: 4 months ago by topofall
News Corp chairman plans to charge readers of the websites of all his newspapers within the next 12 months.
Will this work? Doomed to failure I think.
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Daily News readers have offered their World Series tickets to Injured Soldier. Posted: 1 month ago by suebe
After the Daily News wrote about a disabled veteran's dream of seeing the Yanks in the World Series, two dozen readers offered him either tickets or cash toward buying one.
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News site introduces user recommendation Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A news aggregation site will start letting its users influence the placement of articles by voting on items they like or dislike.
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Top 25 Censored news stories of 2007 Posted: 2 years ago by wags273
News stories from around the world that got little attention.
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Police To Investigate News Corp Phone Tapping Posted: 5 months ago by pocksucket
Following the revelations about phone tapping by The News Of The World made in the Guardian, police are now investigating 3000 potential incidents perpetrated by the scandal rag. Luckily for them, most of the work will have been done in the investigation they previously suppressed.
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Onion News Network Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
The Onion News Network has set the standard for globe-encompassing 24-hour television news since it was founded in December, 1892. The network boasts channels in 171 languages and can be viewed in 4.2 billion households in 811 countries.
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No Bad News: Good News Blog Posted: 3 years ago by kissmenow
"If you’re looking for some good news in these days of hurricanes, insurgency and high oil prices, go to goodnewsblog.com for links to stories that are uplifting but not maudlin." - Newsweek Blog Watch, Sep. 12, 2005
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SportsTipsOnline Beta - Sports Delivered Posted: 2 years ago by sportstipsonline
SportsTipsOnline is a website community that allows you to submit links to sports articles, video, pictures and other online content that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the front page. When a user submits a news item it will be placed in the "Queued" area until it gains sufficient views and will be automatically promoted to the top of the front page.
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Media - The rebirth of news Posted: 6 months ago by rambler
This article starts with the sentence "The internet is killing newspapers and giving birth to a new sort of news business."
Bearing in mind what plime is, I was very surprised not to see this recent article posted here. Did I miss it?
A couple of very important factors are mentioned...
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Papers battle online news sites Posted: 3 years ago by thecritters
"All the news that's fit to print" was once the newspaper man's slogan. Now, with news-junkies turning increasingly to the net for their daily fix of world events, papers are beginning to feel the pinch.
*Includes video report on right of article*
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Iconographic News Headlines Posted: 2 years ago by Turtle
A real-time news "translation machine" representing appearing & disappearing information about our times. The news content is reduced to the most frequent headlines & their according keywords. The reduced news headlines are then visually translated in a dynamic pictogram language that is considered to be universal & instantly understandable. online users can add keywords to an icon to determine which news will be displayed.
"Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. the InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer!"
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New Study: FOX Is Most Balanced [PDF FILE] Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University: "TV election news has been hardest on Hillary Clinton this fall." The study also found that "Fox News Channel's evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks."
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Courthouse News Service Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Site is filled with legal stories, lawsuits, photos and more. Most articles have links to pdf files of legal filings. It is basically a news wire for lawyers and those interested in legal cases.
Includes lawsuits such as one where a land owner is suing FEMA and Homeland Security for failure to pay rent on his land since June of 2007
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