Discovering Newsvine

[Image: newsvine wall]I’m a perfect example of why blogs actually do work. This summer, simply because of people’s blogs, I have:

• Bought a book

• Subscribed to a magazine, and

• Signed up for three web services

The latest of these is Newsvine. After running across Mike Davidson’s blog (CEO Newsvine), I wound up poking around the Newsvine site a little bit. I never really took the time to figure out how it worked before.

So far it’s pretty neat, and it lets me find things like this:

Man Accused of Biting Off Rooster’s Head

NEW YORK — A man accused of biting the head off his pet rooster was arrested Friday and faces up to a year in prison if convicted, an animal protection spokesman said.

A neighbor had complained about a dead rooster near his Manhattan apartment and agents found the body of the beheaded rooster on a fire escape, said Joe Pentangelo, spokesman for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The rooster’s head was not located.