SubscribeGeotagging: News here, now (or there, then)
October 31, 2008 at 11:57 p.m.
In a comment on yesterday's 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, we've 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, and location’s not going to happen unless Geotagging is made easy, and no one’s going to use it unless ...
A short history of DalianDalian.com, and why you should build your own
September 17, 2008 at 7:13 p.m.
When I arrived in Dalian, most of what I knew about the city came from word of mouth. I'd 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 Friedman's ongoing love affair with the Northeast's biggest outsourcing hub, and I knew about the Sino- and Russo-Japanese wars. There was more out there, but it was scattered ...
