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July 26, 2004
Will we ever do this again? Is 2004 the last year we're going to have national conventions like these? I just came back from picking up my credentials, which meant taking the T down to the Fleet Center, waiting on the wrong line, being directed by a series of five polite cops to the press office, and then being told that bloggers pick up their credentials at the Westin Hotel five subway stops away. My fault for not finding out ahead of time where to go. But the trip to and then around the Fleet Center was instructive, for it meant following an intestinally-coiled set of fenced-in paths, with uniformed guards stationed every hundred feet, and mufti-clad security people betrayed by the coils plugged into an ear... The photos I posted just below this entry I also posted at Exposure Manager. which has donated space to the convention bloggers. I'm very impressed with it. Posted
by D. Weinberger at July 26, 2004 01:21 AM
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Comments
I agree--no more conventions!
It's like a Borg collective, a testament against individual thought. (Although if all the women were like Jeri Ryan with that stretchy body suit, I might change my mind.)
Plus with the Internet, why is is necessary for people to aggregregate geographically?
Posted by: Rick Hausen | July 26, 2004 07:09 AM
I'm not yet sure that I agree with the conclusion you think I'm coming to, but I know I disagree with your reasons. I believe in people getting together physically and in heartening each other...which is simply to put in positive language what you've put negatively, so I admit I haven't advanced the discussion a whit.
Posted by: David Weinberger | July 26, 2004 08:00 AM
heh, you're like john reed in TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD.
check out my link to the FREE OF SPEECH ZONE: http://beatwaydown.blogspot.com
Posted by: bw | July 26, 2004 09:12 AM
ps: you should have said something about needing some new clothes. man. don't be so humble.
Posted by: bw | July 26, 2004 09:14 AM
"Will we ever do this again? Is 2004 the last year we're going to have national conventions like these?"
Your question provoked a long enough answer that I decided to post it as a blog entry here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/anderkoo/2004/07/26#a190.
...If the cost of a convention in terms of fear, disruption, and lost business remains as high as it was this year -- and maybe this year was exceptionally paranoid and media-frenzied -- then I think the Globe letter suggesting we hold them out in the middle of the ocean is worth considering. Sort of like having a G8 summit on a fortified island. In terms of the democratic process, I doubt an exclusive boat in the middle of the ocean would be much worse than what's happening this week at the Fleet Center....
Posted by: Gene Koo | July 26, 2004 02:18 PM