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The stenography ends here

A few takeaways from this morning’s presentations at the Knight Foundation meeting today in Chicago:

The stenography ends here. The days of chasing cops and government down for raw data (crime blotter, etc.) to parse into 8 inch stories is coming to an end.  Everyblock and the Sunlight Foundation are a good start.  More projects that [...]

Chicago today

Sitting in a Starbuck’s after a good walk around the neighborhood, plotting to blog from my phone today if this fancy new WordPress app is up to the task.
I’ll be in the Knight Foundation sessions all day — lunchtime seems like a good time to meet up with anyone at UNITY but not in the [...]

Chicago tomorrow

Later tonight, I’ll be on my way to Chicago for a Knight Foundation meeting ahead of the UNITY 2008 conference.
I’m psyched to see the News Challenge posse, but of course if you’re in town for UNITY and want to cross paths on Tuesday, drop me a line or better yet, DM me on Twitter.
So far, [...]