Three Award-Winning Stories

Note to Self

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Three award-winning stories packed into one episode. This week New Tech City is bringing you updates on three short shows we did in the past year that won NY Press Club awards.

Story 1: Know Thy @Neighbor

It’s not always so easy to make friends with your neighbors. Can technology help? Not for our intrepid host Manoush Zomorodi as she tries to grow her own social network for neighbors on her block. We find out what brings people together online and IRL. Plus, you get to meet Joanne, the gravel-voiced mayor of Manoush's street with all kinds of hot tips for the hood. (Original story)

Story 2: Kids Are Like Software

Author Bruce Feiler experiments on his family, running his household according to the Agile programming method. For those who don't know Agile, you'll get a intimate peak into how coders are so productive. For those who do know Agile, you'll chuckle at what a family meeting sounds like when run like a software scrum. And parents, you might just pick up a discipline tip or two. (Original story)

Story 3: Can Mike Bloomberg Take Credit for NYC's Tech Boom?

This winner in the business reporting category chases down the real genesis of New York City's boom in tech talent and startups. The mayor at the time, billionaire Mike Bloomberg, likes to take credit for presiding over a tidal shift in NYC's economy. But as we find out, what might have mattered more than any policy was a talented programmer who just didn't want to live in Silicon Valley anymore. (Original story)

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0:00.0	Hello friend, this is an episode of Note to Self, but from when we used to be called New
0:05.8	Text City.
0:07.2	Same good content, just the old name.
0:09.3	Enjoy.
0:10.3	You'll find no humble bragging here.
0:14.8	I'm a new summer outie the host of New Text City and today we are owning it.
0:18.6	The New Text City team and I won three New York Press Club awards and we are thrilled.
0:24.4	So in case you're new to New Text City or you missed these award-winning radio pieces,
0:29.6	we have compiled them for you today.
0:32.0	And up first is a story about a website that wants to change the way that neighbors talk
0:36.6	to each other.
0:37.6	It's called Next Door and I wanted to figure out why it just wasn't working in my neighborhood,
0:43.9	especially not on my neighbors like Joanne.
0:46.1	That's mad.
0:47.1	Live it on this block.
0:48.1	31 years.
0:49.1	On this block.
0:50.1	Around the corner.
0:51.1	The rest of my life.
0:53.1	You know?
0:54.1	So that's all I ever do is sit on the stoop with the kids.
0:57.0	Jo spends a lot of her time on the stoop of her apartment building, sitting in her green
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