The makeshift gathering of technophiles gave hard-core hackers the chance to get crash courses in Ruby on Rails or Drupal.

I wonder if there's some sort of threshold where Wired will give a product or organization the courtesy of a hyperlink -- some threshold that Drupal apparently has not reached, in Wired's eyes, despite growing usage and recent high-profile attention.

The title of the article -- "At BarCamp, Form Trumps Substance" -- is also kind of dismissive of the whole BarCamp thing, which seems rather odd. What do they mean, "form trumps substance"? Are they suggesting that BarCamps have no substance because they don't revolve around IPOs and VC-backed ventures? Or is it simply that BarCamps are so disruptive that the absence of corporate restrictions and exclusive attendance constitutes "form" over, say, the "substance" of multi-million-dollar product campaigns and the punditry of multi-million-dollar executives?

To be fair, David Cohn's article, in its rather brief reportage on the recent BarCamp New York event, is more balanced than the headline might suggest, despite the lack of Drupal hyperlink. (Pssst! It's http://drupal.org.) Cohn makes me wish I could have attended.

Still, maybe it's time the Wired editors started paying some respect to the long tail that they so love to write about. Talking the talk but not walking the walk: expired.