OWNI: Hacks/hackers founder on lessons from technology for journalists

Interview with Burt Herman, one of the founders of Hacks/Hackers, in which he discusses the origins of the group, which tries to bring journalists and technologists together.

Everyone can be a reporter when news happens, sending Tweets, and uploading photos and video from smartphones. But journalists are still needed to help make sense of it all, and technology can help them cope with this massive wave of information. Also, computer scientists are learning so much about how people interact with technology, and we should be applying those lessons to journalism.

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