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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.

Feb 21, 2010

Panel on Future of Personalized News

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!

Feb 19, 2010