Yesterday on MediaShift, Mark Glaser posted a great interview with Karyn Lu and Lila King who just won $10,000 in seed money from the New Media Women Entrepreneurs Competition. Lu and King, both working for CNN in Atlanta, pitched a project called Echo that will collect stories from citizens of Atlanta through physical hot spots in the city.
The plan is to post signs with phone numbers and location IDs for that geographical location. They are starting hyper-local by gathering interviews from a single neighborhood in Atlanta called Lake Claire. In those interviews, they are asking locals about spots important to them. On their project page, they say these will be part of their proof of concept. More... »
