SubscribeNew tool: TwitBlog for LiveBlogging with Twitter
January 15, 2009 at 10:39 p.m.
Let's say you want to live-blog something. Let's 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? You'd have to copy each one, reformat it, then put the whole list in chronological order.
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I put this little app together yesterday after thinking about it a lot longer. It's a simple Django-powered tool that converts a feed from Twitter Search into plain text or ...
New tools for new news
December 30, 2008 at 3:28 a.m.
Journalists need new tools to work online. In the last year, I've 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 I'm releasing it into the wild.
Tools for News
The site is in public beta for now. Eventually, I hope to move it to its own domain ...
Easy to find. Easy to share.
October 31, 2008 at 1:06 a.m.
I come back to this thought again and again in my head:
I don't 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. It's 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 become so addicted to RSS, to the plain but well-structured layout of the feed, that anything ...
