The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to fil …

We're looking to setup a new meetup in Birmingham aimed at people like us; We're a group of startup techies based in Birmingham, applying the latest tools & techniques to interesting problems; these include the latest web frameworks, No-Sql databases, functional programming toolsets, cloud infrastructure and anything else new and shiny. We're looking for more people like us to share knowledge with and are setting this up to cover a broad range of hacker type topics. Whisk are sponsoring the even …