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January 26, 2009 at 11:37 p.m.

Funny story: Back in October, I started building a little Django-powered web app that ultimately became Tools for News. I'm up coding one Friday night (my girlfriend was in Guatemala at the time; I'm not THAT much of a nerd) and send out this tweet:

Photo_18_normal 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 11, 2008 05:37 AM GMT
A few minutes later, this direct message appears in my inbox:
NewsHour Howdy there. We're digging the toolkit for journos ...

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