Journocoders? Hacker journalists? Whatever the name, let’s help each other out!

For months now, Aron Pilhofer and I have been talking about a Web site where people doing computer programming in journalism could ask and answer questions, solve each other’s problems and, in general, build a supportive community. Somewhere along the way, someone said to me, “You mean, like Stack Overflow?” I went to visit the site — a thriving support community for software developers — and it looked very much like what we had in mind.