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02/01/2007 15:47 #37953

Hollywood Stock Exchange
Category: websites
I love this site. It really is neat . The Hollywood Stock Exchange allows you to trade stocks in movies and movie stars. Movies include newly announced, in production, past or present. It is all 100% free and no catch.

You sign up and get I think 1,000,000 hollywood bucks and you can start trading. It works like the real stock exchange except this is open 24/7 and is worldwide.

The creaters want to use the site as a future of predicitng good and or bad movies. Its hard to explain the dep details, but it is easy to use and play around with.

so go here:

Sign up and mention MY screenname on the site as the reference that got you to sign up: Jason20m1980 and I get money :)

Enjoy and tell me what you think :)

01/30/2007 15:12 #37923

Poll: Americans want Bush impeached
Category: politics
According to an online poll currently being cunducted by MSNBC, when voters are asked "Do you believe President Bush's actions [in Iraq] justify impeachment? as of January 28, 2007 87% said yes.

Poll:
My Digg.com profile "digging" it:
metalpeter - 01/30/07 18:44
The thing to remember about Polls like that (not that I took it or read it) is that they are kinda faulty or missleading sometimes. It has been said on the site many times (and I agree with it) that most media is biased. However most media outlets will never admit it. Most people who watch MSNBC agree on some issues. The same can be said about Foxnews or any other news outlet. For the survey to be really fair what you would have to do is have it on multiple media sources and then have each media source reveals the numbers. It is also possible to write questions in a way that leads people to the answers you want given.

11/22/2006 13:39 #21972

Impersonation is a bit**
Well I thought it would come to this. Apparently someone like to pose as me on Buffalo Rising. It seems I have been accused of badmouthing Sam Savarino of Savarino Construction, the developer who wants to build the hotel on Elmwood and Forest.

It seems that someone somewhere is using my name or screen name on Buffalo Rising and using quotes from articles I have written based on the hotel and badmouthing Savarino in the process.

First things first. I hate Buffalo Rising. It seems to me that everyone on there is the same person with different screen names badmouthing the opponants of the hotel. I have even been told that I write more articles GAINST the hotel than are FOR the hotel.

Maybe it seems that way to some but the truth is, I write what I think is news, in regards to the hotel. Whether its for or against the hotel, I could care less. Where there is news, I will write it.

I do not believe that some people will go to such extremes to stop the flow of accurate information to the public. I as a freelancde journalist believe in nothing but the facts. I report the facts. If someone does not like those facts then talk to me or the direct source. Do not go on some crusade to knock out the little guy becuase you do not like the facts. If you have a problem with me, or my reporting, then talk to me and only me. But I will not allow some sour puss to ruin my reputation on Wikinews. If you have a problem, here I am. Step up.
zobar - 11/22/06 16:58
Guess what, man ... it's not just Buffalo Rising.

:::link:::

- Z

11/16/2006 13:45 #21971

Elmwood Village Hotel off the table/dead
Category: elmwood
The proposed Elmwood Village Hotel seems to be a DEAD deal and no longer on the table. Get the stry here that I just wrote:



They are for sale :)
buffalopundit - 11/17/06 14:29
The devil you know is oftentimes better than the devil you don't. Bear that in mind.

08/23/2006 13:46 #21970

Channel 4 News and plagerism
Channel 4 News recently aired the story about Pano's Restaurant cutting hours on the overnights. They unfortunately do not have the story posted on their site anymore, but WNY Media Network posted the story here: , on their sitre before Channel 4 could delete it from history saying:

From Channel 4's Web site:

A late night dining tradition along Buffalo's Elmwood strip may soon be coming to an end.

News 4 has learned the owner of Pano's Restaurant is considering scaling back his hours.

The restaurant opened on the first day of the Blizzard of '77.
Since then, it has been open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

There's no word yet on why the owner is considering cutting the restaurant's hours.



Note in the edit history ( ) of the Wikinews article here: that the Wikinews article was published on the 21 of August, one day prior to the Channel 4 story.

Note the quotes about the blizzard of 77:

Wikinews: Pano's opened in 1977 on the day of the blizzard of '77' and has "remained open for 24 hours since then", only closing for an hour at a time on the weekends to clean up and prepare the restaurant for breakfast, said Georgiadis.



Channel 4 according to WNY Media: The restaurant opened on the first day of the Blizzard of '77. Since then, it has been open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.



Also note that an e-mail was sent to Channel 4 alerting them to the story on Wikinews, but the e-mail did NOT mention any piece of the article and had a link to the copyright rules in reprinting or airing material used from Wikinews articles. They failed to cite Wikinews as a source or original author.

Plagerism is illegal.


buffalopundit - 11/17/06 14:34
Plagiarism is how it's spelled, and it's not necessarily illegal. Just unethical. Copyright infringement is illegal, but since Wikinews runs a creative commons license, anyone can use it with attribution. The thing with Channel 4 is that a reporter can use Wikinews as a tip, and then call Giorgiadis himself, get an almost identical quote, and then report it without giving Wikinews any attribution.
metalpeter - 08/23/06 19:37
Plagerism is taking someone elses Idea and presenting it as your own idea, in wrighting. As long as you don't say it is your own idea it isn't plagerism. Granted the source could be wrong but that isn't plagerism. The other question is was the writen story just a writen verson of what they said on TV. The fact is that almost all the news on the the internet is from some other source. There isn't much investgative stories writen by someone who works for that papper they are mostly from news sources. That is generaly how the modern news media is.
jenks - 08/23/06 18:34
Not that I condone plagiarism- but it seems to me that Panos being open 24/7 since the blizzard is Common Knowledge- and it is not necessarily plagiarism if two sources report it... especially if the wording isn't even the same...
uncutsaniflush - 08/23/06 17:26
Did you consider the possibility that whoever at Channel 4 responsible for the story was too stupid to know the difference between Wikinews and WNY Media?

I find it curious that the info is attributed to WNY Media by Channel 4.

Plagerists usually don't provide attribution.

Hopefully, someone at Channel 4 will do the right thing to rectify this situation.

Good luck!