Despite the fact that “Tango with Django” came in fourth in the list of unconference sessions, journalists and aspiring programmers still got a chance to dance.

Session proposers Michelle Minkoff and Heather Billings decided Saturday morning to hold the unconference session despite the fact that only the top three were offered space. They spread the word via Twitter and in person, and gathered in an alcove near the escalators on the third floor. About 30 journalists and programmers showed up, with abilities ranging from ace to amateur.

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On the Friday of ONA, I partnered up with Scott Allison, of Miami University. He shot the photos and I collected the audio from a live On Point broadcast, which was hosted by Tom Ashbrook. I also edited the slideshow and put it together with Scott's photographs.

You can view the slideshow live on ONA's website.

The entire experience of ONA coalesced when a friend of mine, who runs a startup blog of Harvard Graduate contributors, asked me to write a post about it. I wrote about hearing the Keynote speech of Ben Huh, the founder of "icanhazcheezburger.com." The text is as follows:
"Last month, a rich man told me that nothing I ever wrote as a journalist would be as popular as this picture of bacon taped to a cat.
I wasn’t the only one who got the message — the room was packed to the gills with journalists attending the Online News Association conference in Boston, and the keynote speaker was Ben Huh, owner of icanhazcheezburger.com (AKA the LOLcats guy). Many journalists were none too pleased with what he had to say, and Gene Weingarten from the Washington Post even wrote a column about it."

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