Jason Bagley - Newsvine 101

SCOOP: BMW M3 pricing!

Seeded on Thu May 24, 2007 6:15 AM EDT (wheels24.co.za)

BMW M3 is set to hit SA shores in September and it will set you back a cool R650 000 if you want one of these babies!

business, bmw, m3

Matriculant dies in crash hours after finding out his results

Seeded on Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:01 AM EST (News24)

A Matriculant from Durban died in a car accident hours after finding out he had passed.

education, south-africa, car-accident, matric

Can someone explain what the US polls are about?

Wed Nov 8, 2006 12:52 AM EST

For us non-Americans, can someone explain what are the American's voting for, and what is different to when they voted for the Presedential race? Also, what are the biggest differences between the Republicans and Democrats?

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us, democrats, politics, republicans, voting

Why Zidane did it.

Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:42 AM EDT

The truth finally comes out.

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Superfast internet cafe launches

Seeded on Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:21 AM EDT (BBC News)

A 100mbps internet cafe has opened in Cornwall, England. It utilizes BT's global internet protocol network with 61 satelite dishes to serve up the connection.

technology, broadband, bt, internet-cafe, 100mbps

SA gets its own Survivor

Seeded on Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:00 AM EDT (News24)

South Africans will now be able to enter a local version of the popular Survivor reality show. It will be shot in Panama, with 14 South Africans trying to win the R1 million.

entertainment, panama, south-africa, survivor, reality, mnet

Ten CSS tricks you may not know

Seeded on Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:50 AM EST (evolt.org)

A couple of really cool CSS tricks that you might have never known! E.G. CSS Shorthand, using 2 classes together, etc.

technology, web-design, css, shorthand

NCAA?? Play the Tournament Pick 'em for fun...

Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:20 AM EST

For those of you that have entered, or want to enter the Tournament Pick'em and haven't the foggiest idea what NCAA is or what's going on, then randomly pick your teams and join in on the What's NCAA? group I created. Enter the key: 287830 to join the group.

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sports, basketball, ncaa, newsvine, group, tournament-pickem

Aussie gamblers forced to pay up

Seeded on Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:59 AM EST (News24)

3 punters lost A$56 000 betting that South Africa could not beat the Aussies in the 5th one-day-international on Sunday, after Australia posted 434 in their 50 overs. The odds they got where 1.01 and 1.06, which would of won them about A$200 if the Aussies had won.

australia, south-africa, odd-news, betting, cricket, odds

Oscar glory for South Africa

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 1:56 AM EST (News24)

Tsotsi, the South African film about a Johannesburg township thug, won the Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday.

entertainment, south-africa, oscars

Penthouse in Cape Town goes for R30 million

Seeded on Wed Mar 1, 2006 8:59 AM EST (property24.com)

The highest price ever paid for an apartment in Cape Town. The penthouse situated in the V&A Waterfront has sold for a whopping R30 million ($5 million)

business, apartment, south-africa, cape-town, penthouse

Brian van Rooyen in bribery scandal

Seeded on Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:55 AM EST (-)

Ex SARU (South African Rugby Union) President Brian van Rooyen seems to have tried to solicite votes in return for money and the hosting of rubgy matches in Free State. Brian van Rooyen recently lost the SARU presidency to Oregan Hoskins at the SARU's AGM last Friday

sports, south-africa, rugby, springboks, saru

Pollock given the all clear

Seeded on Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:30 AM EST (News24)

Shaun Pollock has been given the all clear to play in the remaining 4 one-day internationals against the Aussies.

sports, south-africa, cricket, shaun-pollock, proteas

Blackmailers target Million Dollar website

Seeded on Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:20 AM EST (BBC News)

Those freaking Russians... Always trying to hack, crack and break anything that isn't theirs...

technology, million-dollar, pixels, denial-of-service, blackmail, alex-tew

Highest Paying Search Terms

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:56 AM EST (cyberwyre.com)

The top paying keywords on the internet, but there are some seriously weird keywords here. Mesothelima... what?

technology, internet, search-engine, keywords, highest-paying, internet-search

South Africa spending more online

Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:15 AM EST (fin24.co.za)

As a third-world country(In terms of broadband internet, etc) South African's are definitely catching up on online spending.

business, online, south-africa, shopping, spending, online-shopping

JasonBagley.com - New Year's Resolutions

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 8:52 AM EST (jasonbagley.com)

How many people fail after a couple of days of trying out their New Year's resolutions? Start small, and take these 5 tips into getting things done.

health, blogs, 2006, new-year, new-years, resolutions

MikeD's iPod Giveaway #7:

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 7:15 AM EST (Mike Industries)

Design a Steve Jobs Movie Poster and win a 1gb iPod shuffle!

ipod, competition

Panasonic to make 2.6m TV

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 5:43 AM EST (News24)

Imagine playing PS2 on this baby.....

technology, tv, plasma, panasonic

Sixth Annual Weblog Awards

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 4:07 AM EST (2006.bloggies.com)

The Annual Bloggies are upon us, so get your submissions in! There are 3 new categories to submit your suggestions to: Best podcast, Best craft and Best Teen of a weblog. You have until 10 January to get your submissions in, and from 20th you will be able to vote.

technology, blogs, awards, 2006, blog, weblog-awards, bloggie

WordPress 2.0

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 3:51 AM EST (wordpress.org)

For Wordpress addicts, this comes as old news. For bloggers using any other platform to publish from: Do yourself a real favour...

technology, blogs, blog, wordpress

try ruby! (in your browser)

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 3:12 AM EST (tryruby.hobix.com)

Want to get into Ruby, or Ruby on Rails? But you dont want to download all the compilers etc and then have to learn how configure it before having to find tutorials just to learn how to run 1 line of Ruby code? Tryruby really rocks. Its a hand-on Ruby tutorial in your browser.

technology, ruby, ruby-on-rails

Newsvine feedback

Fri Jan 6, 2006 3:08 AM EST

3 things....

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newsvine-feedback

Blogging at newsvine

Fri Jan 6, 2006 1:21 AM EST

We all read blogs... Some read techie blogs, others sports blogs, but whatever your flavour, I'm going to try and post links to some of the best blog articles on the web. Thats the reason for taking blogs.newsvine.com.

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technology, blogs

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Comments & Feedback

Great seeds and interesting comments. Enjoyed reading about what's going on in South America, and the technical seeds are good as well.

Keep it up, I've added you to my watchlist.

Nice blog by the way.
— Peter Hogg