Police warn shopkeepers it is not okay to keep loaded guns

Seeded on Thu Jun 7, 2007 5:26 PM EDT (infonews.co.nz)

A court decision to clear a man who shot an armed intruder in his gun shop is worrying some lawyers and police as shopkeepers are warned not to keep loaded guns for protection in New Zealand.

court, politics, police, new-zealand, guns, auckland

Citizen media in New Zealand

Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:32 AM EDT

New Zealand now has its very own citizen media website at www.infonews.co.nz.

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technology, new-zealand, newsvine, citizen-journalism, citizen-media

Newsvine world news mashup

Sun Sep 3, 2006 10:15 PM EDT

My Newsvine world news mashup with Google Maps has now been extended to map custom tags. Just enter a tag of your choice and see related stories from around the world located on the map.

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technology, newsvine, mashup, google-maps

Cannabis raffled at $10 a ticket

Seeded on Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:35 PM EDT (Stuff.co.nz)

Winner to take home "an ounce of sticky marijuana heads."

odd-news, cannabis

Newsvine world news mashup update

Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:35 PM EDT

The Newsvine world news mashup that I created in January is now back up and running. The mashup of world news uses web feeds from Newsvine and Google maps.

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technology, newsvine, mashup, google-maps

Google maps, Newsvine mashup

Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:25 PM EST

I have been most impressed with Newsvine and really enjoy the possibilities that tagging news articles allows. Using country tags from the web feeds provided by Newsvine I have created a Google maps mashup of world news.

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google, technology, new-zealand, newsvine, maps, interesting, mashup