So, my colleague Rick Klau has been invited to speak on the blogger’s panel at the Democratic National Convention.
Very very cool. Something is inching toward change. Though rumor is they don’t have wifi.
Hmm…. I wonder what they do at party conventions, other than schmooze and put on a TV show. I wonder what a party convention would look like, if a large part of communication was done by bloggers talking to people who talk back? What would a political convention look like if it caught theCluetrain?
p.s. good explantion, via David Weinberger of how conventions became tv shows, and how the media is part of the show
I’ll be on that panel with Rick. I think it should be a good, fun panel.
I have also gotten credentials to be covering the convention as a blogger for Greater Democracy. (www.greaterdemocracy.ort/mt).
From what I am hearing, it looks like the DNCC
will be able to provide WiFi access to all of the credentialed bloggers.
I sense a magnification of impact via what’s going on.
What strings did you have to pull?
http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_07_09.html#007468
It came completely out of the blue. One morning, on the IRC channel, I heard “what the $! – I just got a call to be on the blogger panel at the Democratic Convention.
Rick comes by the invitation honestly. He was one of the early people who helped the Dean team set up a blog. Since then, he’s been helping local Illinois candidates with weblogs, and doing traditional local organizing. He seems like one of the right people to be on a panel about campaign blogging.