Daily Buzz: Brian Lehrer, WNYC, NYC Economic Times and YOU
February 4, 2009
WNYC
Looks like our friends at WNYC.org (New York City Public Radio) are at it again, and again their project really hits home. This time The Brian Lehrer Show is asking listeners online to submit stories about their daily economic lives to an interactive website. The stories are listed on a local map and provide a very interesting visual landscape. Photos and videos are also welcome.
Please take a moment to take a look and maybe add a story.
(More about WNYC’s current project after the jump.)
Your Uncommon Economic Indicators
A Brian Lehrer Show online and on-air collaborative crowdsourcing project
You don’t have to go to Wall Street to see that the economy’s in shambles—increasingly, you just have to go…out your own front door.
Forget your shrinking stock portfolio—is your morning cup of coffee staying the same size and brand? What’s happening in your neighborhood, or in your workplace, that hints at an overarching trend? What are the less obvious, more personal signs that the economy is changing?
WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show is launching Your Uncommon Economic Indicators, an online and on-air crowdsourcing project aimed at illuminating the state of the economy through listener reports on the personal impact of the recession.
Make submissions here!
Already, on the Brian Lehrer Facebook page and the story archive, listeners have reported:
* Shrinking bets in home poker games
* A 22 cent surcharge for mayo instead of ketchup at McDonald’s
* Seats are harder to find in internet cafés
* A landlord who agreed to lower rent by 25% indefinitely when renters both lost ¼ their pay
* A Pathmark went from open 24/7 to 18/7
Use the YouProduce wiki page for instructions on how to submit photos to the Flickr pool, join the Twitter Feed, or leave a voicemail report (1-800-543-2543).
Text, photo, or video submissions will be plotted on an interactive Google map, and all submission will appear on an archive page which can be sorted by indicator types like “behavior,” “bright spots” “commerce, “employment,” “housing” and “swindlers.”
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