1) The last decade has seen an explosion of new technologies. Which developments have had the biggest impact on your career in media and why?
I would say, in no particular order
- The smart phone — I wrote the first article for NPR on the iPhone. I should clarify: I didn't write the article on an iPhone; I wrote it about the iPhone, which came out only eight years ago, which is hard to imagine.
- APIs and structured data - They allow content to be disseminated to all sorts of devices, and content to be surfaced for all sorts of reasons.
- WAZE - WAZE is the coolest thing. It has basically replaced traffic reports by thinking about how people's phones move, in cars, in aggregate. I think a lot about WAZE and other things like WAZE -- and how communities could think about this.
- A decade ago, I was a senior in college. Reddit didn't exist. Twitter didn't exist. Tumblr didn't exist. Snapchat didn't exist. Yik-Yak didn't exist. Yo didn't exis