Bloggers Offer Inside View to Convention

[Rose Siding]

BOSTON -- The food at receptions, the wonkish policy details debated over breakfast, the gossip on the convention floor -- in an age when the personal is political, blogs and conventions are a natural fit.

Dozens of delegates are writing for Web logs, or "blogs," promising the folks back home their take -- up close and personal -- on the pomp and politics of the Democratic National Convention.
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Many delegate bloggers supported Howard Dean, whose Internet-based, grass-roots campaign set fund-raising records and attracted a large following. Some say they want to keep that online effort alive even as they transfer their loyalty to John Kerry, the party's presumed nominee.

"We don't want to lose the community, and we could lose it if we go back to the traditional methods of Democratic organizing," said blogger Ellen Meserow, a Washington delegate and former state technical director for the Dean campaign.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-cvn-delegate-bloggers,0,7838366.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[Cha]

1. I will add a blogger to this that I heard on c-span

Saturday morning who sounded really good and his website is very funny and full of good info.

http://www.pandagon.net

His name is Ezra Klein and he goes to College in California.

Check it out ...it's good!

[Rose Siding]

2. Ha- he says he'll let us know which reporters

pee in the parking lot (cuz of porta-potty-gate)

[NMDemDist2]

3. and my friend from AZ is at

www.d8dems.org starting Monday

look for "Ron's Convention Chronicles"

[mom cat]

4. And, of course Will Pitts' truthout.org plus the others from the article

http://www.musselmanforamerica.com

http://www.cateread.com

http://www.democraticgirl.com

http://virtuallythere2004.org

http://kcdems.blogspot.com

http://www.reachm.com/amstreet

http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/?qblog/4

http://www.livejournal.com/users/psyntist

http://www.pnwflyfishing.blogspot.com

and http://www.truthout.org