Including tweets was definitely part of our plan and I’d marked a load of favourites in preparation. But in the end with just one mac operator to pull the thing together and a tight deadline we ran out of time.

Now that we know it works we can do a bit more forward planning, write some scripts to do a lot of the basic work, and recruit a larger team for next year.

Business models around it are an interesting question and are being most clearly explored by the Newspaper Club folks – http://www.newspaperclub.co.uk/ – who are developing a system for developing newspaper content online (probably including automatically aggregating from feeds) and then using spare time on presses to get things printed at low cost. There are ideas in there about enabling community groups and about sustaining struggling printing facilities and it’ll be interesting to see how it develops.