Maybe people will wake up and realise that real time doesn't actually matter; you can easily keep up to date polling 1-2x per month if you really wanted to. It

Maybe people will wake up and realise that real time doesn't actually matter; you can easily keep up to date polling 1-2x per month if you really wanted to. It's not like anything truly vanguard happens more than a few times per year in most industries. And it's not twitter or bloggers that do it. Real innovation happens so infrequently that it's pretty easy to keep up if you have a system. Unfortunately most young programmers I talk to don't even read papers [where the real action happens]!! They read blogs & twitter. Perhaps they don't realize that this IS science, and the plural of anecdotes on twitter et al do not make data.