Asking the right questions is critical in getting compelling answers from sources, as all reporters know. A problem with online comments is that they are often unfocused and off-topic given the open nature of many commenting systems.
Asking the right questions is critical in getting compelling answers from sources, as all reporters know.
Yahoo! researcher Yury Lifshits has built a tool called Interview2010 that aims to help get better answers from readers through a structured question and answer system.
Thanks to all of you who posted ideas for future events at the meetup site. I’d like to bring the conversation over here because meetup doesn’t allow commenting on ideas beyond simply “liking” them.
So far, this suggestion has received the most interest:
Forget “hack day” – Hackers need to learn to be Hacks – Shadow Hacks for a day!
One of the ongoing tensions in this space is that it seems that the tools that Hackers are developing only solve a subset of problems that face journalism today.
[]1Things got a little heated at the Hacks/Hackers event on the Future of Personalized News.
After founders Dan Olsen of yourversion and Ethan Gahng of lazyfeed talked about providing relevant stories to readers, some in the crowd pressed them about how to pay the creators who craft all that quality media that audiences want.
But as Dan and Ethan pointed out, they aren’t making any money themselves and are still trying to figure out their business model.
Thanks to all who attended the Hacks/Hackers meetup on the Future of Personalized News! I’ll be writing more about the event in a separate post — things got a bit heated at times and there was some good debate about how to ensure quality content survives in the aggregation age. The archived livestream is below, and here’s a written summary on Google Buzz by Abe Epton of Google News. (thanks Abe!
Welcome to Hacks and Hackers, the online community for discussion around the real-life meetups of the same name.