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By: Kelly and Megan are (insert location here) « News: From the Field

Kelly and Megan are (insert location here) « News: From the Field — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:47:16 +0000

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By: paulbalcerak

paulbalcerak — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:00:05 +0000

@Nathaniel - It's certainly possible, though it would depend on how secretive people were being with their check-ins. I think of greater value, at least right now, is the opportunity to leverage Foursquare as a more personalized way to interact with news content—and what's more personal than giving people information about the exact location they're standing in? Check out these two posts: 3 Ways News Organizations Can Leverage Location-Based Social Networks (OMNT) Foursquare's New Frontier: Newspapers (Mashable)

By: Nathaniel Miller

Nathaniel Miller — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:39:33 +0000

Your first paragraph feels like words taken from my mind. I feel the same way, although I’m warming to the journalism applications of Foursquare.

I wanted to throw out another possibility:

Could you pinpoint witnesses to a crime or an event by searching for who checked at what time and where? That could be helpful if tradition methods of finding eyewitness accounts come up short.

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