Hack the MIX Hackathon

In a prior Hackathon, a group of us worked collaboratively to generate one of the more popular entries: Tweetstorming.  Not only did we collaborate to build the hack, we tried to use the idea itself - using the twitter platform to engage in the brainstorming and writing - to help the hack building process.  It worked surprising well despite the distances that separated the collaborators.  What using twitter did, was open up our thinking to any one following the hash tag.

Now, mind you, the hash tag didn't get a whole lot of play in the twitter-verse, and no, we never "trended," but had we deployed a more intentional, focused effort, it could have (okay, I'm dreaming - does any one listen to/use the hacks we post?).  Regardless, the point here is that to truly open source the operation, might we be better off making the default setting for the beginning of every had - open?

That is, let's wiki-fy (if I can coin this verb, if it hasn't been coined already) all hacks. Make them open to all, or at least a smaller subset of everyone that is managible.  In that way, if I have a good idea, and some one's brain fires on the things I wrote, they can amplify the hack by adding their two or three cents.  Additionally, if people try to use the applications - hacks - and they have varying degrees of success, the hacks can be improved in real time based on the real-life application of them.