I watched the Hack 1 clip second after Hack 2. You need to watch more than one to understand the Hacker's shtick. In this first clip, the Hacker sort of pretends to Be Media: "sort of" because, despite all the footage/audio he devotes to funning the bureaucrats, he does have a valid and important point to make about those bureaucracies and how they could (perhaps) achieve one of their goals by spending their bloviation budget on solutions rather than gab fests. (Isn't Negroponte's work excellent? http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/) The Hacker does inadvertently demonstrate the difference between capital-M Media and a tech-savvy amateur, the difference he seems to claim isn't significant. His story would have been more effectively told if he had concentrated on the important point per above and skipped the smarty-pants business about his quest for credentialing, this is, with some editing. In editorial terms, the Hacker buried the lede. Why pretending to "Be Media" isn't Being Media 3 Der Nister 2007-01-30 13:36:43 2007-01-30 13:36:43 "The Hacker does inadvertently demonstrate the difference between capital-M Media and a tech-savvy amateur" Actually, der Nister got this one backwards. I was media. Real credentials, access to backstage, free drinks, etc... That was indeed the point. Re: Why pretending to "Be Media" isn't Being Media 1 malamud 2007-01-30 17:36:28 2007-02-05 00:17:30 2 2.00