In case you’re just tuning in to Blurt today, I’m live blogging at the Snelling Center’s eState Symposium, a day-long conference on building a connected Vermont community.

Bill Simmon of Candleblog is also reporting on today’s activities.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...