Felocity

Okay, I'm tired of explaining it online and on the phone to everyone... it's tiring to type the same thing again and again and answer a lot of the same questions. Last night I was attacked by someone who the San Jose Police Department feel was trying to steal my car. For the record, I'm fine save for a slightly twisted knee and a scratch on my cheekbone. However, everyone's had a lot of questions about what happened, and so here it goes.

At about 4 am, I was walking to my car in what was a very dark parking lot. There was a heavyset man with what looked like a hoodie on the grass strip underneath the trees. After years of college, something didn't feel right. I put my keys in my left hand and grabbed my lock-blade knife I got for christmas in my right. I used to always carry my keys and a knife because I didn't trust the Seaside area, especially where my house used to be. So anyway, he started walking towards my car as I did and something seemed really wrong. I got my key in the door and he was still ten feet off or so. I turned the key and I heard him run at me.…

Newsvine has entered a private beta, and I'm more than happy to say people are going to be excited when it goes public. On the surface, it is somewhere between social networking, news, and a rating site. Beneath that however, there are also watch lists, soon to be celebrity writers and taggers, a complete tagging system that rivals the popular tag based sites like Flickr, and a pretty good shot at a business model which is going to turn some heads. So what exactly is it they do well? They certainly have the [news" part down.

Hitting the Newsvine front page is like the start of a visit to a typical web site such as CNN or MSNBC. There are categories along the top for all your major news items such as "Health", "Tech", "U.S.", and so on. The largest difference though is the icons that are attached to every post on Newsvine. Every article (either written exclusively for Newsvine or as a link to an offsite article) can be rated, commented on, or talked about in a live chat. The live chat is especially interesting and I'll actually get to that in a bit. Stories that get more positive ratings move up the vine until they start appearing on the front page, much akin to how "Digg](http://www.digg.com) handles popular stories. I'm not sure right now if comments help boost it up or not, but it's always possible.…