Chip Oglesby

Putting Americans to work through technology

// July 12th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Journalism, The Future

While driving down I-26 to Asheville North Carolina last weekend, I noticed a sign that said “Project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” This was passed in 2009 under the Obama administration as a way to create jobs and promote investment and consumer spending during the recession. The measures of ARRA are worth about $787 billion.

The road sign got me thinking about acts that were passed as part of the New Deal: The Works Progress Administration (WPA) and The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The WPA was created by President Roosevelt in 1935. Expenditures from 36-39 totaled nearly $7 billion. As a side note, my grandfather use to refer to the WPA as “We piddle around” for their lack of work.

The CCC was a public work relief program for unemployed men age 18-24 to provide development of natural resources in rural areas from 1933 to 1942.

In North Carolina, both the WPA and CCC helped build the Blue Ridge Parkway:

On June 30, 1936, Congress formally authorized the project as the “Blue Ridge Parkway” and placed it under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. Some work was carried out by various New Deal public works agencies. The Works Progress Administration did some roadway construction. Crews from the Emergency Relief Administration carried out landscape work and development of parkway recreation areas. Personnel from four Civilian Conservation Corps camps worked on roadside cleanup, roadside plantings, grading slopes, and improving adjacent fields and forest lands. During World War II, the CCC crews were replaced by conscientious objectors in the Civilian Public Service program.

What does this have to do with technology?

The CCC and WPA were good ideas in the 1930′s, but there are new and greater demands that need to be met during our current recession. Government spending is at an all time high while red tape and bloat hinder a system that our founding fathers helped establish.

One of the main problems facing the government is a lack of innovation and creation with technology.

It’s time that we take the next step and create new agencies that will help bring us into the next era of a public and open government.

Large strides could be made by putting people to work in the technology sector of government. Designers, developers, community activist could all work in stride to help make how the government spends your money and help hold your elected officials accountable.

What could these jobs produce?

Designers across America for example could help redesign websites such as the South Carolina Governors Mansion website.

These jobs could help create databases of information that are publicly accessible by all. A good start would be to build a system for Roll Call voting as outlined in the South Carolina Policy Council’s 2009 transparency report. The US Senate has an XML feed of their votes available, a key piece of legislation that was championed by S.C. Senator Jim DeMint. Politico goes further into the pro’s and con’s of this.

Sites like scvotes should have API’s that work with counties GIS departments to report voting results for precints statewide in realtime on election night.

Any state ran or supported website should also make their analytics avaiable under FOIA laws. This could help determine the sites actually impact to cost ratio.

Copyright laws should also be updated and any text and photograph make publicly available. On the South Carolina Flim website for example, in the footer the following information appears:

Photographs and art on this website and any downloadable publications are copyrighted and cannot be reproduced without the written permission of the photographer and/or the South Carolina Film Commission. © 2010 by the South Carolina Film Commission, a division of SC Parks, Recreation and Tourism. All rights reserved.

All information on any taxpayer supported website needs to be licensed through a Creative Commons license. Government entities should also use open platforms such as drupal, django and share their code using Github.

SCPC also supports the idea of an online check registery. [PDF] After submitting FOIA’s to 85 district counties, 12 counties quoted an expense of more than $10,000 to complete the request.

A technological workforce reinvestment could help solve these problems by working with those 85 districts to move their financial records online using open linked data.

There are five stars to linked data: 1. make your stuff available on the web. (whatever format.) 2. make it avaiable as stuctured data (excel instead of pdf.) 3. use non-proprietary format ( csv, tab delimited instead of excel.) 4. Use urls to identify things, so that people can point to it. 5. link your data to other people’s data to provide context.

If you think about it, it’s a pretty simple idea. Why can’t citizens log in to one website and see a single view of their account with a city or state. (water, sewer, real estate, auto excise tax, registration, etc.)

All of this requires a massive amount of imagination and innovation, but it has to start from the ground up. People need to learn that they have just as much control of what happens in government as the people they elect. The media does a good job of informing what’s happening in government, but they miss a great opportunity when it comes to educating people on how to make changes.

In conclusion, it’s time to take a serious look at the types of projects we’re funding with ARRA and look for ways to promote real change through a digital workforce reinvestment.

Advice to newspapers: Just link it!

// June 16th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Journalism, The Future

I’ve seen enough articles about Nick Carr’s and Clay Shirky’s back and forth rhetoric over the internet making you dumber and smarter. Surprise, surprise, they’re both publishing books very soon (disclaimer: I plan on buying both because I like their work).

I think a lot of newspapers are missing the point of what these articles are saying. Instead of bickering back and forth about using readability or actually using links in articles, what I would like to see is more people encouraging newspapers to actually use links!

I’ve visited quite a few South Carolina based media companies this week, searching for their RSS feeds for my new job and their sites have a long way to go. Some papers like The New York Times do decent jobs at creating topic pages, which I’m a fan of, but there are very few outgoing links to other, competing websites.

When would this be helpful?

For beginners, linking out to other sites helps define you as an authority on news. It’s showing your readers that “hey we don’t know everything, but we’ll show you who does, and we’ll show you where you can find it.” Be a link authority in your community and at your paper.

How can we get started?

If you’re a reporter, you should have a delicious account. Delicious is a free online bookmarking service that allows you to store links online and tag this with specific keywords. You could do this with every story that you write, with items that you’re following or as your own personal clipping service. Here’s my delicious account.

Another option is to use Publish2. I used publish2 while at The State when the Boeing news story broke to aggregate stories from around the U.S. on Boeing’s big news in S.C. It received a lot of high praise for including supporting stories.

What should we do next?

Your next step is to talk to someone in your online department. More than likely, they’ll be willing to add the links as assets to your story (hopefully). If you have a system like CCI or some other offline system, it might add them for you automatically. You should also requests for your online CMS to your website and ask your Online Editor to let you go in and manually add the links yourself, you may get shot down, but you won’t know unless you try.

In conclusion:

Stop talking about how the internet is making us uber ADD and just look at it for what it is: a way to make the world more connected through a simple use of an HTML link.

Google TV: a solution for newspapers video woes?

// May 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // Journalism, The Future

Google’s TV announcement yesterday could be a potential solution for video woes at newspapers.

Between 2004-2008, video was suppose to be one of the “saviors of journalism.” Plenty of newspaper shooters and CEO’s had high hopes for video, most of it was a flash in the pan.

In my opinion, video-journalism has been limited from the beginning because of the view environment. Just as mobile phones are not good for long form journalism, viewing long form video while sitting upright at work is not ideal. Watching videos at work or while on the move lends itself to watching quick short videos.

Looking at metrics from most videos, most people exit a video after viewing only 1:30 worth of footage. What would happen if they were in a better viewing environment? Would newspapers finally have the chance to create the long form video they’ve always wanted?

Bringing the internet to the living room is something that I’ve been wanting for a very long time. Apple TV did this previously, but in a very limited capacity, before and after it crippled Boxee from running on it’s hardware. Apple allowed Youtube and Flickr to stream to it’s device, but Google TV will search the entire internet.

What Google has done will open the door for newspapers and self publishers alike. No more viewing video on a small computer or cell phone screen when it was meant to be viewed on the big screen.

Newspapers who explore this option should look at the ability to run regular interactive commercials similar to what Hulu offers. Longer video opens the door for advertising options other than pre-roll or post-roll ads.

It would be interesting to see research done on how the same video compares in two different viewing environments, one on the computer and one on a flat screen TV.

This announcement also opens many new possibilities for publishing video on the internet. For example:

• Small businesses can now publish longer serial dramas using Youtube channels.
• Newspapers could publish in-depth videos exploring socio-economic issues in their viewing areas allowing individuals to contribute to the report.
• Athletes and celebrities can publish their own interactive channels combining various social media outlets.
• Political candidates can host their own interactive town hall meetings and fireside chats remotely, giving them the ability to travel to more places, saving time and money.

Google TV doesn’t have to be just a one-way device either. It can be interactive using social media tools as well. This could potentially opening the door for RPG/choose your own adventure webisodes.

Now more than ever newspapers need to start looking at Google as a distribution partner and not someone who’s “stealing their income.”

Retaining institutional knowledge

// November 6th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Journalism, The Future

In our October SMC meeting Doug Fisher made a great point when he said “What other business leaves 99% of their raw material on the cutting room floor?”

That quote has given me plenty to think about when it comes to retaining ‘institutional knowledge‘ in the workroom.

Managing information

Newspapers have always been plagued by how they manage information. Most reporters use notepads and keep them tied up in boxes shoved away under their desk.

There may be some online content stored in individuals reporters directory but there’s no central repository of information available. At best, some reporters store all of their contacts in a MS word document. *ugh*

With staff layoffs most mid-sized newspapers have completely done away with their library staff, opting instead for a digital library such as Olive.

But what happens to the institutional knowledge when layoffs come? Think of all the history that a reporter takes with them. Every contact they have, every note they’ve taken may just as well walk out of the door with them.

Suggested software

So how do we tackle this mountain of data and inefficiency?

To begin with, reporters, editors and producers need to understand that their knowledge belongs to everyone in the newsroom. I know that some may find it shocking when you ask them to share their sources with others, but it’s time to stop playing this game and start collaborating as a team.

Next, newspapers should install and internally host their own free wiki site.

Within those pages, reporters and editors can create information-rich pages about every prominent business, councilman, elected official, high school and sports team they cover.

Take for example the public wikipedia page of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. This could easily be duplicated for newspapers and could include twice as much information because every story we’ve and everyone else has published would be linked to this page. It could also include contact information, known associates, political positions, campaign donors or whatever you could imagine.

Every time a reporter or editor learns new information about an individual subject it could be added to the wiki to help retain that much needed knowledge and context. Over time a huge database could be created and using API’s and metadata, it could also be connected to your photo archives and digital libraries giving you the ability to do some great data-mining.

A reporter could easily maintain their own pages by creating entries for people they cover like the mayor, the governor, head football coach, whoever and adding small nuggets of information over time. If the need arises or beats are swapped, then all of their knowledge moves right on to the next person who covers that beat.

The type of information that is retained could very, but newspapers could create a type of guideline for what should be kept on the wiki pages. If working on something confidential, a team could password protect their page, but this would be outside of the norm since we want everyone to collaborate.

All of this comes down to newspapers need to curate raw data and give it a place to reside for long term use. Newspapers need to do a much better job on connecting the dots internally as well as externally.

Issues to consider

One thing to take into consideration is where you want to host this wiki. Do you want to store it on the internet and allow your readers to collaborate with you or do you want to store it internally behind a firewall available only from within the building and via VPN?

If there were a way to password protect certain parts of the page, I would make the bold move to suggest that it be publicly available and ask your readers to contribute their collective knowledge. Obviously there would still be a need to fact check everything that readers post.

Another issue to consider is how to get reporters and editors excited about doing something like this. There are certain types of people (like me) who could sit around and semantically tag blogs and multimedia all day, and then there are others who are lucky if they even check their work emails once a week.

Sometimes you’ll see a strong push for something exciting like this in the very beginning, like writing a company blog, but it slowly tapers off over time, So keeping folks interested will also be an obstacle.

The bottom line

As more papers face more cutbacks and layoffs our ‘institutional knowledge’ is going to keep on walking out the door an an alarming rate.

Setting up an internal wiki is only the beginning for what could be accomplished. With some basic software and data mining, reporters and editors could uncover a completely new set of data that will give their site premium content, but connecting the dots has to start somewhere. Where do we go from here?

Using data and augmented reality to help define local news

// October 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // Geolocation, Journalism, The Future

There is no longer denying the use of what we currently call “smartphones” will only continue to increase their capacity as technology becomes cheaper.

The way that we use our phones will also continue to change as more phones utilize what is known as Location Based Services or LBS which uses various methods of A-GPS.

This is a pretty new area for newspapers to start exploring and I would like to see more attention paid to local advertising using LBS.

I recently saw an article that described the idea of using an Augmented Reality app that runs on the Android Phone that showed nearby tweets and various other types of information. Wikitude: (Android) TwitAround: (iPhone)

The basic idea of TwitAround is that by using the phone’s accelerometer you can see real-time tweets happening around you.

We also know that data needs relationships and newspapers are historically good about gathering data. What they are not good at is how the record and distribute that information.

My idea is the build an application that harnesses all of this data and makes it available on your phone.

Examples

Example 1: You are a first time home buyer looking in the Rosewood area on Maple for a home. By simply pointing your phone at a home, you are instantly able to see MLS listings, tax parcel service look ups and average utility usage charges. You are also able to see local related stories, photos, tweets, video, crime stats and so forth.

Example 2: You are the same home buyer and you travel to the intersection of Wheat and Rosewood and come upon Hand Middle School where you children may attend. By pointing your phone at the school, you are able to see publicly accessible data such as SAT scores, teachers salaries, crime reports, stories about the school, historical context and more.

Example 3: You are at a high school football game where Hammond is playing Heathwood Hall. By pointing your phone at a jersey on the field, you would be able to see team roster, individual stats, results in various weather conditions, past games, photos, videos and tweets.

Example 4: You are are at the museum of art and want to know more about the painting you are looking at. By pointing your phone, you are able to see historical context, painters bio, similar paintings and more.

A business model

In a virtual interview that I did with Dan Conover, I found this quote to be interesting

“The issue with augmented reality, then, isn’t the technology. You need a platform that communicates it, a system that structures and creates it, a business model that understands its value and how to communicate it, and user devices and software agents that accurately interpret and negotiate it. The issue is content and how to pay for it. ”

The problem is that we need a business model that rewards someone for adding value (i.e., meaningful content that people actually want). Until that happens, then every business that approaches augmented reality is going to treat it as just another way of delivering no-cost crap. It’s going to be mass-media executives trying to figure out how to use Facebook all over again. Business people tend to look at networked media as a way to make free money off of somebody else’s content, but there’s not going to be a sustainable business here until we work out the connections and expectations and exchanges..

While what Dan is saying is correct, I don’t think that it will be an entire ‘crap in, crap out’ model either. Just as Twitter has become popular, so will it’s ability to filter tweets through geolocation.

What we need is a better way to rate and log information through various algorithms that will sort the good from the bad. Part of the connections that we need to work out will be taking and filtering raw data as Berner Lee suggested, but also pulling content from our own archives and making that available through various API’s.

Mindy McAdams also raises an interesting point in here post ‘Augmented Reality: a business model.’

Each view of a node can be tracked. Each visit to the node can be tabulated. I think the opportunities for selling would be fantastic — the whole process could be automated. The advertiser pays a small fee to have the privilege of viewing all visits to a node. This is like micro-metrics for local businesses. The fee is necessary because you want it to be monthly or yearly, and you want it tied to a true identity. The account can be modified to allow advertisers to input and update their own coupons, etc. Then they pay per ad, per length of time, per update, etc. But it’s all hands-free for the entity that owns the app.

Not only would this tie in well with local advertisers, it would also open an entirely new stream of revenue we haven’t previously seen. It’s hard to answer the question of “how are we going to make money off of this?” because we’ve never done it before. The closest thing we’ve ever had to this would be a ‘bar database.’

Drawbacks

There are some drawbacks to LBS:

Results indicate that A-GPS locations obtained using the 3G iPhone are much less accurate than those from regular autonomous GPS units (average median error of 8 m for ten 20-minute field tests) but appear sufficient for most Location Based Services (LBS). WiFi locations using the 3G iPhone are much less accurate (median error of 74 m for 58 observations) and fail to meet the published accuracy specifications.

but that’s something we’ll have to address in another post.

Steps to getting started

1. You data will have to be available in a raw format. Hopefully, you’ll be able to use the COPE method, or the more controversial hnews for your information.
2. Your data will have to be given relationships and linked to other data.
3. Your data will have to be given a specific longitude, latitude for future reference.
4. You’ll can build your own publish platform or you can use openly available API’s like Layar.
5. All of your photos and stories will require stronger semantic data. No more incomplete information.
6. You’ll have to actually have a team who can code all of this for you.

Conclusion

Where we go from here really depends on how much news organizations want to invest in this type of technology. At the very least, we can take small steps by adding value to our stories through our Content Management System by using keywords and physical locations if they support it. (Hint: MNI does!)

How long will it be business as usual?

// October 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // Journalism, The Future

There are many new media advocates, online evangelist, and bloggers who are calling for the death of newspapers and the survival of journalism. I support the idea of open source journalism. I also realize that we will reach a point in time were the general interest product is no longer sustainable.

Here’s the dilemma. How long will we continue to carry on as usual? It’s no secret that when layoffs hit the newsroom, the young and well educated are amongst the first to leave, while things continue with a ‘business as usual’ attitude. This cannot continue to happen.

I’m about half way through reading “The Control Revolution” which was written in 1999! It paints a utopian picture for the reader about all of the wonderful things we’ll be able to do in a decade (that’s this year!). Was anyone reading this book thinking “Man this is really going to change everything we’re doing, we better get on it?”

In 2005 I read “We the Media” by Dan Gilmor. It completely changed everything I knew about journalism and made me realize what was possible for us to really do. The day I finished reading it, I started building mockups for my own hyperlocal site which I never started, due to various reasons.

In 2009, I read “Here Comes Everybody” by Clay Shirky. Again, it challenged assumptions I had forgotten and reminded me that we need to involve our audience if we hope to continue as journalists.

Obviously, these and numerous other books have laid a solid foundation for what’s really possible for newspapers, but why are so few following suit?

We knew this time was coming, but many newspapers felt their digital strategy had been completed after launching their website and that’s not good enough.

Look around, few newspapers have a web-first strategy. Most still view the TV station as their competition. Most newspapers are okay with reporting stories after the fact, instead of starting a live story that continues throughout the day.

A perfect example of this could have been the live coverage of the Tom Joyner story. Twitter would have been a great medium to use. Cover it live would have worked also, but instead, most of the reporting was done after the fact. Also, collaboration with the Associated Press could have prevented two or more news companies writing the same story, thus wasting resources.

Some of these problems could be solved with education and change in newsroom culture. Having a knowledgeable staff member that can tell you what the proper tool to use at the proper time will go a long way. While a cover it live blog at the state fair may not be the best tool for the job, twitpic or twitvid may be an excellent substitute.

As long as we continue these esoteric fights among journalism pundits over paywalls or whatever, we’re never going to get anywhere. Instead, we need to be stepping up and showing people what they can do to help save their own livelihood and create a better environment for journalism.

Building tomorrow’s news today

// October 8th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Journalism, The Future

Tomorrow is our first big event with Social Media Club Columbia. We’re having our future of journalism conference. We’re talking about the future of journalism and the impact of social media in the newsroom.

Some of our guest have already taken the time to respond to our questions. Dan Conover and Doug Fisher have addressed all of their questions on their own blogs. I also plan on answering as many questions on the site since I was the one who came up with them.

I wanted to take the time to highlight two great points from Dan and Doug. First is an idea from Conover

There are plenty of people who can walk into your newsroom and set up the workflows and training sessions that can make a web-first system work (like, say, me for instance). But unless your top management is accountable for its success, and by that I mean that their salaries and bonuses are tied to it, it’s not going to change. This is a cultural challenge masquerading as a technical problem.

Dan has really hit on something here. How many publishers salaries are tied into how well their website do? Right now, I would guess that the majority of their concern is with the print product, but it is going to take a complete change in mentality before everyone is ready to accept the web first model of news. I would like to see a newsroom system set up that rewards everyone for being web first.

Everyone wants to talk about micropayments from customers, but let’s flip the idea and consider micropayments for reporters, editors and photographers who move stories, photos and video faster, engage their audience and get more pageviews. Those employees would receive a monthly bonus based on how well they did online.

Once we put the incentive on being web first, I think we’ll see more of the pieces of this puzzle fall into place.

The second point, raised by Doug about institutional knowledge verses reader knowledge:

Well, let’s start with these two assertions: at least half of your audience knows more about a story than you do, but two-thirds of them really have no clue about much outside their own little world. In other words, the collective and institutional knowledge are complementary. If you don’t acknowledge a lot of people know more than you do, all sorts of bad things result. You tend to write down to your readers. You tend to ignore nuances and oversimplify. You might miss valuable information.

As we all know, journalism can no longer be a one-way street of information, it has to flow both ways. Part of the problem journalist have with community journalism is knowing that we can trust what they say and write. When you approach journalism from a wiki style model where a static story becomes a living story, you’ll learn that sometimes you’re readers know much more about a subject than you do. Figuring out how to collect and curate this content is one thing we hope to discuss.

One other quick point that I would like to make is the idea of curation. Clay Shirky had a great quote in a recent interview “If anyone can say anything, publishers can no longer do things the way they use to.”

Maybe what we need to consider is a way of curating content for consumers so they don’t become overwhelmed by information.

There are two ways to approach this idea so just hear me out.

People on one side of the argument will tell you that “it’s unnecessary to curate content for people because they can do it themselves. There are tools for doing that.” That’s true, with twitter, google reader and the New York Times custom RSS feed, who needs journalists?

There’s the other side of this argument. “People need us because they are lazy and don’t have the knowledge to do it themselves.” That may be a blunt statement, but part of it is true. How many people do you know that actually change their own oil? How many people can repair their own P.C.? I know plenty of people who can do both, but I know that their are more people who are willing to pay someone to do it for them, because they don’t know how, or they would rather not waste their time trying to figure out something they only need to do once or twice. Once we can figure out a sustainable way of curating content for readers, we’ll move forward in this discussion.

Let’s take this idea and apply it to what we’re currently doing. I posted on twitter that if I started a news company tomorrow, we wouldn’t have a central website. Think about the possibilities of building great mobile and desktop applications that give the user a great UI that they would be willing to pay for.

This could solve two problems. One, How do we get people to pay for content? Two, how do we get our content on the web without putting it behind a paywall?

Your content would still reside on the web, it would be indexed by Google and could be linked to by legacy bloggers who are still blogging the same way in 10 years, but no one says how it should look. The link itself could be a simple text file with nothing more than a bunch of meta tags.

Here’s a video that Charles Ellison and I recorded for our SMC meeting, I think it’s about as painfully awkward as you can get and I freaking love it!

The future of news: location

// October 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Geolocation, Journalism, The Future

When was the last time you noticed a dateline? in the newspaper? Do your readers even know the purpose of a dateline?

In the 1800 and 1900′s before the internet, mobile computing and GPS, using a dateline was fine, the relationship to the location was understood and in present day it still is, but in the age of the links, having a standard dateline doesn’t work. If the Internet is built on semantic information, why not relate the physical location in a digital environment?

There’s a lot of talk about the future of hyperlocal journalism, but have you noticed how the same old standards for datelines still apply to the online world?

Understand this, it just doesn’t work the same way!

Location based services and stories with specific geolocations will be vital to the next newsroom.

There are numerous applications that use location based services. Brightkite and AroundMe are two examples for the iPhone. As smart-phones gain popularity among users, we will see a dramatic shift in the way people send and receive information. That opens the doors for great opportunities in hyperlocal journalism and advertising.

Who could benefit from this?

Weekly and small dailies who produce a lot of community journalism are most likely to succeed with an idea like this. Their focus is more on covering their community, so they are more likely to have a larger set of data to work with.

What are some examples?

Example 1: Take this story written in the Fort Mill Times, a McClatchy newspaper. Fire destroys Indian Land house under construction The reporter Jenny Overman does a great job of telling us what happened at the scene, but there is no mention of the exact location of the house.

I’m sure that residents in that area saw the smoke and were very curious about what was going on. By using the geolocation of the phone and home, readers would be able to get updates about the story based on their physical location.

Example 2: Let’s say that you’ve decided that you want to go play golf in Hilton Head Island at Harbour Town Golf Links, which has been the past host of the Verizon Heritage Tournament. You’re standing around waiting to tee off, so you open your phone which determines your location and shows you ever article, photo and video about the hole your stand at.

Haven’t I heard this before?

Yes you have! outside.in and Everyblock are very similar, but newspapers haven’t taken the time to get rid of the industry old byline and update it with new methods using longitude, latitude.

Outside.in does a decent job of showing some local news from the Columbia area, but it depends on crowdsourcing to give a link a location or place. This could be circumvented by having a reporter and photographer use a GPS device.

The possibilities for a service like this are endless. All of the dots are slowly starting to come together. Twitter’s geolocation API, Flickr’s support of OpenMaps and Foursquare, Augmented Reality, and the rise of mobile computing.

News companies need to invest in technology that will harness this power if they hope to be a competitor in the online market. It’s only a matter of time before someone comes along and does it bigger and better than we could and we’ll be left shaking our heads asking “Why didn’t newspapers think of this?”

Where do we go from here?

• Every story that’s written in a newspaper that references a real world location should have a gelocation tag associated with it.
• Reporters and photographers should use a Spot Me GPS, iPhone or equivalent device.
• If there’s a way to archive and update old stories to include location, it should be done.
• All future information will have to be catalogued for future reference.

There’s more research that could be done on this and I would love to your thoughts and opinions about it.