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Posted by: JamesMarcus 2 years, 7 months ago

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The Netscape team is proud to roll out a new feature: NewsQuake. This is where our staff will blog about current events, politics, culture, and some of the zanier stories unearthed by our membership. New posts will appear every single day--often more than once a day--and we encourage visitors to stop by and leap into the discussion threads.

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James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and ...

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SonOfTheMask
May 14, 2007, 6:18 p.m.
Should be interesting...thank you, Netscape.
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JamesMarcus
May 14, 2007, 6:23 p.m.
You're very welcome. Be sure to stop by!
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quackpot
May 14, 2007, 6:41 p.m.
Sounds like fun.
Another suggestion is to have current main-line stories hit the top of the Netscape banner a bit sooner. For example the Resignation of Paul McNulty from the Justice Department (nunber two man there) should be on the Netscape Top Stories.
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libsRfunny
May 14, 2007, 8:38 p.m.
The liberal spin machine will be in high gear
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deathray
May 14, 2007, 9:59 p.m.
Aren't they all NewsQuakes to somebody?
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tehranchik
May 14, 2007, 11:32 p.m.
So we get a user name and start all over again only at NewsQuake?Can we keep our user names from netscape?
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joe-money
May 14, 2007, 11:49 p.m.
Thus marks the end of private journalism and therefore accuracy. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea should watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-auoYsPJ014
It is biased, but still realistic.
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joe-money
May 14, 2007, 11:50 p.m.
Thus marks the end of private journalism and therefore accuracy. Anyone who thinks that this is a good idea should watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-auoYsPJ014
It is biased, but still realistic.
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Macondo
May 15, 2007, 12:06 a.m.

"If ain't broken don't fix it."
I do not understand the essence of the new feature.
Would you have a panel of Netscape employees judging the importance and correctiveness of news and opinions?
Or a group of people under salary by Netscape will define worth/worthless, right/wrong, good/evil?
I see most of the blogers as it is now, are centrist or light liberals. Some Neo-Cons if they are literate, they post opinions. Most of Neo-Cons having no clear concepts or arguments they just "Sink" the post.
We need more information about NewsQuake criteria to pick news.
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KYRed
May 15, 2007, 12:08 a.m.
Oh, boy. More blather from Libscape.
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STONERS
May 15, 2007, 3:34 a.m.
Something else!!! I'm not even going there...
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adimoga
May 15, 2007, 8:31 a.m.
where is the focus ?
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jcrussell23
May 15, 2007, 9:56 a.m.
I hope this becomes better than digg. I can't that place anymore.
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dahonlaya
May 15, 2007, 10:45 a.m.
Can we let this pup start to walk before we kill it folks? Not much judge this early on.
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slate
May 15, 2007, 2:11 p.m.
I was just getting the hang of this format now you want to change things? What's a monkey to do?
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contrast
May 15, 2007, 2:27 p.m.
wow with all the varying opinions in the netscape staff there are sure to be fireworks...
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ohboywm
May 15, 2007, 11:35 p.m.
Great, even more ways for the Netscape slackies to spam their liberal point of views. Slandered, selectively edited, agenda driven presentations that give at best a narrow view of only one side of their hand picked propaganda stories.
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ABANOCLA
May 17, 2007, 11:43 a.m.
Just what is needed,more places to blog about leftist junk, if anyone ever sees me in there, please don't hesitate to shoot, thank you in advance.
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Shadowolf
May 18, 2007, 12:18 a.m.
OK; WTH, I'll give it a try....hopefully there is no anti pun bias...
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PatrioticAmerican
May 19, 2007, 10:58 a.m.
in this area will you explain reasons behind stories being blocked for "terms of service" violations.????????