So, I was starting to get mega POed, because my tweets weren’t showing up on these Gathering Point maps folks are starting to make at the office.
I felt left out.
I went to the Location Services tab in the Settings app on my iPhone and thought I activated the Twitter switch:
Alas, my tweets were still lost in an abyss. Continue reading
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This is the closed food court, caution tape and all. My editor, Cathy Hirko, noticed I’m getting a little artsy fartsy with my iPhone photos.
The other day, I posted about Gathering Point, this neat tool you can use to make social maps that update in realtime to complement stories.
On Tuesday, I had the perfect opportunity to see it in action: A cockroach infestation that closed the food court at the York Galleria mall.
On a side note, that day, I pretty much almost crashed my car on Rt. 30.
En route to the mall, I had my notepad pinned against the steering wheel while I took notes from Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Samantha Krepps. Continue reading
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