I wonder if there is anything the Hackathon people can do to help Litchfield, Lyme (which seems to have given up its old web address to a site that advertises Lyme disease T-shirts, remedies for dog lupus, and cream for genital warts), and several other towns that don't have web sites, and therefore don't have their agendas or other town information online.
On a related note, I notice that one of the Hackathon events focuses on Drupal, which I only have heard mentioned recently in citizen journalism contexts.
On the Other Future of News gathering, set for about 2 weeks from now: "It's tentatively scheduled for somewhere - we need a venue in Mpls-St. Paul."
It may be a bad sign that even though they don't know where they are going to meet, they DO know "There will be beer."
But as with any online journalism project, the business model is still a challenge. "How that [the beer] gets paid for is unknown at this point."
I hope two things come of this: 1) Now that I have made fun of them, they will be wildly successful, and hit on the key to the future success of online journalism. 2) They will soon post a venue, and this will all be moot.
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