Hacks/Hackers as contact sport

[]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.