Baltimore Book Festival

I went for a few hours on Sunday. I saw TC Boyle read; I'd been pretty excited to see him, but at the end my impression was...eh. He was interesting and had a sense of humor (and he was fun to look at since he's one of those people who looks like an animal died on top of his head), but he used the environment as an excuse for just going through the motions. The festival took place outside, and the readings and panels were held in open tents. So noise traveled--for instance, there was some guy who kept walking around playing an instrument. And there was opera or something being sung in one of the tents. So there were multiple distractions. But Boyle assumed that his audience wouldn't be able to focus on him, so most of the session was just a Q & A.

Anyway, I had wanted to see the panel on online publishing, but for various reasons, I got there late. Two members of the forum were editors on http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com. They talked about the need for online journals to unite, and apparently there is some sort of organization, but it isn't very organized. Also, they talked about the struggle to find funding. One member suggested that the key was to find funding from nontraditional sources.

Did anyone catch the beginning of the panel? Or attend the festival?