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The iTunes for News we have

Eyes East -- Lets talk about what iTunes does. Back when it first launched, it was a companion to a piece of expensive hardware, the iPod, and a way to sell music that could be played on that piece of hardware. Both are Apple products, and the two work together as seamlessly as as Windows and Internet Explorer. One company, with a well-cultivated following, a lot of marketing and slick design, figured out how ...     02-12
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Imagine…news on your computer

Eyes East -- Its not as far fetched as you might imagine:This video has been making the rounds, but I had to post it becauseaside from being broadcast the year I was bornit says something about the way news consumption has changed in my lifetime. I hear some version of the lead in on this piece pretty regularly from members of my parents generation: I just cant imagine sitting down with my coffee and a compute...     02-09
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Tools for News teams up with SND

Eyes East -- The toolkit for online journalists has moved to a new home with the Society for News Design. Shortly after I launched Tools for News in late December, Tyson Evans from SND emailed me about teaming up on the project. Matt Mansfield helped convince me to come on board. Chrys Wu has more on the hackathon that got it all migrated. The toolkit is now part of a growing network of apps and sites under SN...     02-04
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Experts

Eyes East -- Steve Yelvington talks about being a local expert. This pushes farther a concept Jeff Jarvis advanced a few months back: The building block of journalism is no longer the article. Matt at Newsless describes this as systematic knowledge accumulation (hes talking about within journalism, in this case, but I think its applicable here). Lets think about what that might look like a bit. For a given top...     01-29
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PBS Newshour Online

Eyes East -- Funny story: Back in October, I started building little Django-powered web app that ultimately became Tools for News. Im up coding one Friday night (my girlfriend was in Guatemala at the time; Im not THAT much of a nerd) and send out this tweet:eyeseast: The little journalists toolkit I mentioned yesterday is coming together. A few good folks are testing it now. Going to try adding comments. Oct 1...     01-27
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Lessons from Spot.us

Eyes East -- Im about to leave the warm embrace of the Bay Area and in doing so, take myself out of the jurisdiction of Spot.us. I was lucky enough to meet David Cohn when the San Jose Mercury News opened its newsroom for CopyCamp last year, and he suggested I pitch something in his alpha phase. At that point it was just a simple wiki, The Point and Davids seemingly-infinite energy. In December, when Spot.us l...     01-25
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Remembering Deep Throat and the man in the shadows

Eyes East -- Friends, family and admirers of W. Mark Felt, better known to the public as Deep Throat, remembered the late FBI agent today as a man who lived his fundamental beliefs of truth, justice and service. Action is character, former Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward (now an editor there) said of his late friend and mentor. This was a memorial for the man known as Deep Throat, the G-man who arranged ...     01-17
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New tool: TwitBlog for LiveBlogging with Twitter

Eyes East -- Lets say you want to live-blog something. Lets say you like Twitter. Twitter is great for immediacy, but what if you want to round up all your tweets at the end of the day and put them in a blog post? Youd have to copy each one, reformat it, then put the whole list in chronological order. Now you dont have to.Production notes: I put this little app together yesterday after thinking about it a lot ...     01-16
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Stuff to learn in 2009

Eyes East -- Just going to write all this down so I dont forget. Could call it resolutions but that whole mindset seems designed to produce regret come December. Lets just make this a to-learn/to-do list: GeoDjango With Tools for News up and running and RedFence 2.0 almost there, I feel like Ive got a good enough grasp of Django to try out the GIS branch. Ive got a subdomain for it set up and a couple project ...     01-07
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Blueprint CSS. Yes.

Eyes East -- Why, or why, did it take me so long to discover Blueprint CSS? Because I wasnt looking, clearly. I am not a designer. Designers are people with style, and my sister, my girlfriend and my housemate have all made it very clear that Im lacking in that department. More than that, CSS fits into the large category of things Id much rather outsource to a competent professional. Ill stick to Python and pr...     01-02
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New tools for new news

Eyes East -- Journalists need new tools to work online. In the last year, Ive used more that I can count, most of them free, to find and tell better stories on the Web. Back in October, I started building an online database of such tools as a personal project, just a way to keep track of everything I was using. It has since grown into something I think others will find useful, so Im releasing it into the wild....     2008
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Local is what local covers

Eyes East -- Following up on my last post, I started listing in my head all the places and non-places my local newspaper, like every paper Ive read or worked for, covers. Heres a partial list for a few news organizations: The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA): Places:Santa Rosa Rohnert Park Petaluma (bureau) Sebastopol Winsdor Healdsburg Graton Guerneville Ukiah (bureau) Lake County Mendocino County Occasional v...     2008
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Finding a local news feed

Eyes East -- My next little side project is going to involve parsing feeds. Im tired of wading through hideous newspaper.coms trying to find a certain story, or stories about a certain area, without having to avoid national news Ive read elsewhere, or bits about towns Ill never visit. Andrew Meyer has been having the same problem: When I visit PressDemocrat.com, I go for one thing: Sonoma County news. Someone ...     2008
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Geotagging: News here, now (or there, then)

Eyes East -- In a comment on yesterdays post about making news easy to find and easy to share, Alex reminds me that he and I have had this conversation before. Now that I think about it, weve had this conversation a lot, especially about finding relevant news based on location. And about this time last year you and I worked out a way to do this. Well, the skeleton of one. It can be built, but UI is important, ...     2008
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Easy to find. Easy to share.

Eyes East -- I come back to this thought again and again in my head: I dont need more video, or more multimedia of any kind, or even databases or forums or yet another social network. All I want, as a reader, is news that is easy to find and easy to share. Its what I want in the sites I build and the newsrooms I work for, too. Is this too much to ask? Most days, I practically live in Google Reader. I have beco...     2008
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A word for managers

Eyes East -- From Joe Grimm, until recently of the Detroit Free Press, in his most recent (and always-excellent) Ask the Recruiter column: We imperil our companies and our own careers when we do not listen closely to young people, whose experience with media is so different than our own and whose ideas may hold some of the solutions. Invite them into the strategy sessions, encourage them to really brainstorm a...     2008
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A short history of DalianDalian.com, and why you should build your own

Eyes East -- When I arrived in Dalian, most of what I knew about the city came from word of mouth. Id spent a few months hanging around a local expat forum, reading blogs, emailing people who lived there. I read up on the city where I could, but coverage of smaller cities in China (even small cities of three to six million) tends take a birds-eye view. I knew about Thomas Friedmans ongoing love affair with the...     2008
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There’s no ‘I’ in team, but there sure is in China

Eyes East -- China won gold at more events than any other country in the Olympics, but it didnt take home the most gold medals, as Duke University political scientist Michael Allen Gillespie points out (via Tim Johnson). The reason: Americans dominated the team events, while Chinese athletes excelled in individual sports. If one looks over all of the Olympic sports, Americans took home 118 gold medals, 99 silv...     2008
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The harder questions

Eyes East -- What Ted said:Politics lends itself to facile issues, to facile answers. The problem is youve got the rhetoric and youve got the reality. The rhetoric is, youve got candidates talk about bringing all those jobs back and not giving tax breaks to companies that send jobs overseas. The problem with that is that it only tells half the story. One of the reasons America has been able to keep inflation d...     2008
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Did Bush get it right on China?

Eyes East -- Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek seems to think so. While hes no fan of the current president, Zakaria gives him credit for engaging the Peoples Republic in last weeks cover story, What Bush Got Right: The bilateral relationship between China and America will be the most significant one in the 21st century. Bush began his term poorly on the subject. During the campaign, when asked by Larry King for the ...     2008
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