The Brian Lehrer Show

The Power of One

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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.

Crowd Sourcing Project: Dig in and tell us what angels or devils you find in the details of the congestion pricing plan!

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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.

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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.

Haberman: "Sad, but True: Missing the Old Days in Albany"