You Call This Local?

photo.jpg, originally uploaded by david parmet.

I love those “here I am” apps for the iPhone. Using BrightKite I once found Brian Oberkirch only one story above me (but 1/2 hour later) in Washington DC of all places. I’ve been playing with Outside.in (over there on the sideboard) and Radar for my iPhone, just to see what and who is around me.

Somehow though, the folks who built the Radar iPhone app think I’m only up here in the wilds of Northern Westchester for a brief visit until I get back to mid-town Manhattan.

I guess if you are sitting in some garage in Palo Alto, the 45 or so miles from Yorktown Heights, NY (where this screencap was taken) to Hoboken, NJ might not seem so big.

But if you live in Westchester County, “local” does not necessarily equal “New York City metro area.” I’m more interested in what’s happening in White Plains (which has a very nice newspaper with it’s own website, thank you very much) or Stamford (ditto).

Oddly enough, if I’m in New Canaan, CT – just a couple of miles from my home but on the other side of the NY / CT border, I get news from Stamford, CT, which is walking distance.

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