Jessamyn West, with Christian Crumlish in the shadows
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by D. Weinberger at July 29, 2004 01:26 PM
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OMG! thanx for the pics of La Garofalo. Yesterday I was listening to Air America and she started a sentence with "Well, Paolo Friere says..." and I had to pull over my car I was laughing so hard; to hear such off-the cuff erudition on talk radio is just the bomb.
These pictures provide a fascinating slice of perspective on the convention. Thanks for posting them.
I hope that, by the next convention, there are delegates who happen to be bloggers (or bloggers who become delegates). It sounds like one of the side-effects of being corralled into blogger boulevard is that it was easy for posts to become meta (e.g., bloggers posting about bloggers or about blogging), plus you were way up in the nosebleed seats (I've seen a hockey game from up there, but I'll bet the convention was less exciting from that distance). The blogger-boulevard stuff is a legitimate convention experience, of course; but I personally would be interested in reading what a delegate-blog would look like, and I think it would be neat if bloggers got sufficiently engaged in the political process that we were actually registering as delegates to represent our home communities...
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OMG! thanx for the pics of La Garofalo. Yesterday I was listening to Air America and she started a sentence with "Well, Paolo Friere says..." and I had to pull over my car I was laughing so hard; to hear such off-the cuff erudition on talk radio is just the bomb.
Posted by: Lisa Williams | July 29, 2004 03:58 PM
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Posted by: Dorothy Canfield Fisher | July 30, 2004 08:09 AM
These pictures provide a fascinating slice of perspective on the convention. Thanks for posting them.
I hope that, by the next convention, there are delegates who happen to be bloggers (or bloggers who become delegates). It sounds like one of the side-effects of being corralled into blogger boulevard is that it was easy for posts to become meta (e.g., bloggers posting about bloggers or about blogging), plus you were way up in the nosebleed seats (I've seen a hockey game from up there, but I'll bet the convention was less exciting from that distance). The blogger-boulevard stuff is a legitimate convention experience, of course; but I personally would be interested in reading what a delegate-blog would look like, and I think it would be neat if bloggers got sufficiently engaged in the political process that we were actually registering as delegates to represent our home communities...
Posted by: Rachel | August 2, 2004 03:37 PM
Howdy, Rachel!
Yes, clustering us made us even more meta.
ConventionBloggers.com included delegate blogs, by the way. And I agree with you that "incidental" blogs like that are likely to be the future...
Posted by: David Weinberger | August 2, 2004 06:06 PM