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Identity is harder to define in a digital age. Technology expert John Henry Clippinger says the internet and social networks are changing the very meaning of individualism. Plus: The Don Imus flap; looking for a pattern in the city’s recent building collapses; whether Hillary Clinton should act like the underdog in the Democratic primary; and a live-action thriller talk show host from Staten Island.
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Brian talks with listeners about what they think are the day's most important stories.
Top Dog, Underdog
Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek magazine, thinks Hillary Clinton's strategy should be to act like an underdog to beat Barack Obama.
I-Mess
Lori Tharps, co-author of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America and writer of the blog My American Melting Pot, takes on the Don Imus flap.
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
The Human Hive
John Henry Clippinger, senior fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the author of A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity (PublicAffairs, 2007), says technology is challenging the primacy of the individual over the social group.
Beware of Historic Building
Does the recent spate of building collapses say anything about the city's building code? Patricia Lancaster, commissioner of the city's Department of Buildings, Ric Bell, executive director of the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter, and Lockhart Steele, publisher of Curbed, a blog about New York ...
B.O.B.
Sara Valentine, performer and performance curator who represented Staten Island in P.S.122's Best of the Boroughs (B.O.B.) Festival with Little Miss Big Mouth, a "live-action thriller talk show."
Visit Sara Valentine’s Little Miss Big Mouth blog.
This week's other B.O.B. ...
Visit Sara Valentine’s Little Miss Big Mouth blog.
This week's other B.O.B. ...
Required Reading: April 9, 2007
GOP-Issued Laptops Now A White House Headache (LA Times)
Democrats Seek to Lead the Way in Tax Overhaul (NY Times)
Army Is Cracking Down on Deserters (NY Times)
Texas Men's Innocence Puts A County On Trial (LA Times)
President Renewing Efforts on Immigration (Washington Post)
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