Through “crowd-sourcing,” amateurs using today’s media technology sometimes make better movies, clothing and encyclopedias than the professionals. Find out what happens when companies open up their labor to the masses. Also, a conversation with former Drug Czar and Secretary of Education William Bennett.
Primary Focus
Jonathan Tasini, candidate for US Senate
- on his run for Senate against Hillary Clinton
» Tasini for New York
- on his run for Senate against Hillary Clinton
» Tasini for New York
Snowed Out
Ken Walsh, senior White House correspondent for US News and World Report
- on the replacement of US Treasury Secretary John Snow with Henry Paulson
- on the replacement of US Treasury Secretary John Snow with Henry Paulson
The Wisdom of the Crowd
Jeff Howe, contributing editor for Wired Magazine
- explains how companies are outsourcing labor to the masses
» The Rise of Crowdsourcing in Wired Magazine
- explains how companies are outsourcing labor to the masses
» The Rise of Crowdsourcing in Wired Magazine
It's All History
Bill Bennett, former Education Secretary and author, America the Last Best Hope, Volume I: From the Age of Discovert to a World at War(Nelson Current 2006)
- discusses American history prior to World War One.
- discusses American history prior to World War One.
Open Phones
college aged listeners tell us how they feel about internships
Best of Both Worlds
Taking a yellowcab to the beach may sound impossible, but now that the Water Taxi Beach is open...
Required Reading: 5/30/2006
CBS Journalists Killed In Iraq (LA Times)
Number of Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers Rises to 75 (USA Today)
Democrats Not The Only Ones Touting “Speaker Pelosi†(NY Times)
Bloomberg Said He Urged WTC Memorial Pres to Stay (NY Times)
Diplomats Airport Perks Criticized (NY Post)