Hacks/Hackers Demo Day 3 Recap

At the third Hacks/Hackers NYC Demo Day, six speakers whizzed through their presentations covering several topics, from real-time data collection to content management systems.

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Ira Glass on Why Radiolab is Amazing

Ira Glass put together a great analysis of why Radiolab has excited not just him but also hoard of youngens who've became to radio fiends thanks to the genius of Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. Genius... get it?

Anyhow, here's a really interesting point Mr. Glass made in his piece.

"Real journalism – and by that I mean fact-based reporting – is getting trounced by commentary and opinion in all its forms, from Fox News to the political blogs to Jon Stewart. Everyone knows newspapers are in horrible trouble. TV news continually loses ratings. And one way we broadcast journalists can fight back and hold our audience is to sound like human beings on the air. Not know-it-all stiffs. One way the opinion guys kick our ass and appeal to an audience is that they talk like normal people, not like news robots speaking their stentorian news-speak. So I wish more broadcast journalism had such human narrators at its center. I think that would help fact-based journalism survive."

It's definitely worth a read, even if you're specialized in video:
http://bit.ly/oeFznh