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July 06, 2004
I just received a letter (paper and everything) saying that I've been credentiaed to blog from the Democratic Convention. Woohoo! Posted
by D. Weinberger at July 6, 2004 02:42 PM
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Comments
Congratulations! I look forward to reading your stuff. I don't envy the effort you'll expend, though...
-DanB
Posted by: Dan Bricklin | July 6, 2004 03:39 PM
Excellent! Congratulations. I'll look forward to some unique insights.
Posted by: Rob | July 6, 2004 04:43 PM
Excellent David! Can't wait to experience the convention from your POV.
Posted by: Halley Suitt | July 6, 2004 07:07 PM
I just can't see any virtue in the Democratic Party, even if only for the purpose of unseating Bushman. It's already too late. The war happened. Any Democrat who opposes it is counseled to anger management classes (Dean). What's the use?
It's like: Republicans make war, then Democrats smooze a little peace until the next time we need to make a war. That's all they're good for. Phooy.
Posted by: bw | July 7, 2004 08:22 AM
Congrats, David, to you and to us. Phew -- now there'll be at least one blogvoice there we can trust.
No pressure ;-)
Posted by: memer | July 7, 2004 10:56 AM
I'm glad you'll be there blogging this. Quite a step forward from the practice of blogging bloggers blogging bloggers that so many of us engage in.
I'm confused though. Besides a chance to show off one of the biggest public works projects since the great pyramid, what does this year's convention offer us? The candidate is pre-selected. The running mate is announced. Is there any democracy on the agenda? I'm just thinking out loud and I don't expect you to know the answer. After it's over, I'll expect to understand better why they're holding conventions these days when the political work seems to be done elsewhere.
Posted by: Frank Paynter | July 7, 2004 02:37 PM
Congratulations from a fellow Dave.
One thing: Spellcheck. See "credentiaed" above...
Carpe!
Dave
Posted by: anonymoses | July 8, 2004 08:07 PM
Congrats, I suppose.
I'm a delegate this year myself, and hope I'll see you there.
Just look for the longhaired, bearded Wisconsin delegate with the orange cowboy hat...
and pants...
and shirt...
and watch...
and shoes...
and socks...
and pens...
--
Mike Lowrey
Dean delegate, 4th Wisconsin Cong. District
Posted by: Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey | July 11, 2004 07:46 PM
New York Times endorses convention bloggers
by intrepid
[Edit Diary]
Thu Jul 15th, 2004 at 01:45:23 EDT
Conventioneering.com
HL Mencken is said to have guffawed and slapped his thigh in delight at times as he would write about a typical day at a presidential nominating convention. Those long-ago times are enviable for their unpredictability -- eons removed from the scripted conventions that will soon be offered to the nation once more as lean cuisine for thought. All the more reason to hope, then, that this year's one potentially risky innovation -- accepting dozens of free-form online bloggers as accredited convention journalists -- may lace the proceedings with fresh insight and even some Menckenian impertinence.
People who think the mushrooming world of wannabe polemicists and their Web logs, or blogs, is merely a high-tech amusement should talk to Senator Trent Lott, the Mississippi Republican.
In Web lore, bloggers are credited with relentlessly drilling Senator Lott after he expressed segregation-tinged nostalgia for the Strom Thurmond presidential campaign, a story that the major news media initially missed. Mr. Lott was subsequently forced to quit as majority leader.
Beyond its power as a source of news and commentary, the Internet has proved itself to be the ultimate fund-raising tool. Bloggers can be crass and biased, but politicians no longer scoff at their rich online realm. Hence the red carpet at the conventions -- at least for some of them.
The Democrats, needless to say, are already paying for their venturesome invitation. They received applications from 50 bloggers and later announced there was room for only 30. Conspiracy theories are already abounding on the blogs of the disinvited. Such is Web life. We do wonder whether a blogger's buccaneer self-image will suffer from having to wear a garish credential necklace just to watch conventioneers as they mainly say, "Nice to see you!" to each other. Will bloggers be tamed into centrism? Or, like Mencken, will they gleefully report that the convention's main speechmakers are "plainly on furlough from some home for extinct volcanoes"? Log on to find out.
Posted by: dave bard | July 16, 2004 01:30 AM
If you want to take a break from the official goings-on, stop by "I wish to say." For this traveling art show, I set up a portable office -- complete with an old-fashioned typewriter -- and ask people what they would like to say to the President. Based on this, I type postcards to the President.
Monday, July 26: Children's Museum Wharf, 300 Congress St. noon to 2 p.m. and Harvard Square, 4 to 6 p.m.
Posted by: Sheryl Oring | July 26, 2004 09:59 AM
What is the experience like?
Posted by: SteveO | July 26, 2004 03:31 PM
Congrats, David, how you can type real fast. There's going to be a lot to write about.
Maybe you can get to interview a few
people from the Edwards group.
John Edwards has a lot of new ideas
that we need. He looks more
presidential every day.
Posted by: CarlosX | July 28, 2004 05:06 PM