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The Power of One
If the printing press gave voice to the individual, and the telephone gave rise to two-way communication, then the ever-expanding tools of the internet are amplifying group communication like never before. Author Clay Shirky talks about the power of organization that the internet gives to an individual.
Congestion Pricing Crunchtime
Michael O'Loughlin, director of the Campaign for New York's Future, makes the case for congestion pricing.
Countdown to Congestion Pricing: Buslines
Aaron Naparstek, the editor of Streetsblog talks about two new bus stories in the news, and about how the bus system will effect congestion pricing.
Not Your Father's Library
Scott Douglas, librarian at the Anaheim Public Library, McSweeney's contributor and the author of Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian (Da Capo Press, 2008), talks about the library life today.
The Power of One
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, discusses the power of the internet to organize from the bottom up instead of from the top down.
Beyond Bear Mountain and Roger Stone
New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman talks about "the old Albany" as we learn more about Governor Paterson's past. WNYC's political director Andrea Bernstein chimes in to discuss Paterson's first week in office and offers a profile of Roger Stone, the GOP operative who outed Spitzer's illegal activities to the Feds.
Listen to Andrea's piece on Roger Stone.
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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