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• Friends don't let friends use bad grammar.

  Thu Sep 28, 2006
  • Only people who openly want to improve their writing would get better and those sort of people are probably not the worst writers around. I fully agree. Though friend-proofreading could help to a little extent, I don't see it as a solution to the problem of poor grammar on Newsvine.

• Guilds Revisited

  Thu Sep 28, 2006
  • I want to make guilds as transparent as possible - almost to the point that if you're new you don't even notice them. This is possible from a technical point of view, but I think it would prove very difficult from a social point of view.

• The State of the Newsvine

  Tue Sep 26, 2006
  • CAN YOU CITE STATISTICS TO BACK THAT UP??"? I'm currently developing a loud-o-meter, to finally know with scientific precision who is the one that won the contest :D

• The State of the Newsvine

  Tue Sep 26, 2006
  • Yes, political articles can be very controversial and most of them are bound to lead to fierce discussions. This doesn't necessarily mean people like to read about them, it means people like to talk about them (and in many cases, talk does not imply an actual conversation when politics is involved...

• The State of the Newsvine

  Tue Sep 26, 2006
  • Adam, you are right about the sports. In fact, most of the Sports articles are Wires. It would be very interesting to track the popularity of articles among readers, too, but this is really something we can't do with a simple feed analysis ;)

• The State of the Newsvine

  Tue Sep 26, 2006
  • Yeah, I noticed the popularity of politics these days. When it comes to politics, everyone seems to always have something absolutely important to tell others ;) I don't understand why the politics articles should be categorized under World news, though. Isn't the Politics category good enough?

• Hideous Misuse of Tags by Newsvine Staff

  Thu Aug 31, 2006
  • The headline tricked me, at first, I must admit. And another thing that's tricking me is the comments count... how comes it says "8 comments" but I can only see two comments (plus my own, of course)? Am I missing some basic it's-how-newsvine-works fact?

• Another Internationalization Issue

  Fri Jul 7, 2006
  • Maybe I'm a little too pessimistic on the subject of changing people's habits, but I hardly think Newsvine could make a difference in the switch to the International System...

• Another Internationalization Issue

  Fri Jul 7, 2006
  • I would agree if there was already - in the "real world" - an ongoing process to try to standardize metric systems. Since users of the British system don't seem too keen to let it go, however, I'm afraid we don't have many other viable options.

• Another Internationalization Issue

  Fri Jul 7, 2006
  • This is a problem that goes *far* beyond Newsvine. In fact, I believe the British system to be far too old and nonsensical, but I really can't see how this could change.