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Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:20:24 GMT

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:24:15 GMT

The convention welcomes John Edwards.

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:08:52 GMT

This place is incredibly emotionally charged. More intense than a World Series game. When people say nothing happens here, no news, that's just wrong. Jesse, sitting to my right, says the place is so jammed he saw Rob Reiner and his handlers trying to talk their way into seats. Basically every seat in the place is filled and then some. Elizabeth Edwards is speaking now.

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:55:12 GMT

Micah Sifry: Hidden in Plain View.

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:49:17 GMT

Dewey Beats Truman. "Edwards hits the stage at Democratic convention to build up Kerry." Only one problem -- it hasn't happened yet.

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:07:10 GMT

Dowbrigade endorses Kerry -- The kiss of death?

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:01:01 GMT

Rebecca has a short audio blog post for Scripting News readers.

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:41:59 GMT

Al Sharpton didn't give anything resembling the vetted speech.

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:37:36 GMT

Command Post: "Al Sharpton was to have 6 minutes� he took 20."

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:44:12 GMT

Logical Realism: "Not sure if it carries through on TV or radio, but the crowd is really pumped tonight." True.

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:22:41 GMT

Random Wednesday DNC pictures.

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:29:36 GMT

Blogging pioneers Rebecca Blood and Jesse James Garrett visited.

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:01:15 GMT

PR Week: "Eric Kraus, Gillette VP of corporate communications, called the blog rumors 'an urban myth.'"

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:54:59 GMT

I'm going to be interviewed soon by ARD, German television, for a show called Tagesthemen.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:40:00 GMT

Senator Dick Durbin will be at the blogger booth at 8:30PM tonight for bloggers who are interested.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:27:34 GMT

Nancy Pelosi and the DCCC are hosting Blogger Bash at Meze Estiatorio 10PM-2AM tonight. "Invitation only."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:52:31 GMT

Mike Byron, a delegate and Democratic candidate for Congress (CA-49) is blogging daily on the Byron for Congress campaign blog.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:09:48 GMT

Dan Bricklin: "Political conventions today are about transmitting a feeling and the press tries to filter that out, leaving something strange and unnatural." This is a kickass must-read piece. Dan is making an important contribution to convention blogging, the off-site guy who reads all the stuff and then thinks about what it means. Here, there is no time to think, there is only time to do.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:46:39 GMT

David Weinberger: Objective Rhetoric.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:08:00 GMT

I was just interviewed by Niharika Acharya of Voice of America's Hindi service , broadcast in India. Gaurav Dwivedi is the cameraman. Like most television crews they like you to contort yourself into unnatural positions so that you can't actually type accurately, but it looks good on TV for some reason. So that is exactly what I'm doing right now, as silly as it might seem!

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:32:50 GMT

Ed Cone: "Is Atrios going to be more credible, or more popular, now that we know who lives in the mansion above the Batcave?"

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:25:45 GMT

Jessamyn the Librarian wearing a Blogger™ shirt.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:58:40 GMT

Am I crazy or does Christian Crumlish look a lot like Marc Canter??

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:56:07 GMT

Today's audio blog post, began with a question from Teresa Hanafin from Boston.Com, and then drifted into setting the context for tomorrow's Gillmor Gang audiocast. Also look for a 20-minute discussion tomorrow morning at 10:40AM Eastern on WHYY Philadelphia.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:21:59 GMT

Seattle Post-Intelligencer on two anonymous Microsoft bloggers.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:06:14 GMT

Philadelphia Inquirer: "Welcome to Bloggers' Boulevard."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:00:34 GMT

Betsy Devine: "I don't wear broomstick skirts or cowboy boots."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:51:50 GMT

Dave Johnson: "I think that next week is going to be the week to really read bloggers."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:44:06 GMT

Dave is right, I think. It's not just that time for writing is scarce (it is), it's also that the mood is pretty edgy because of the security. Last night I cut out early to have dinner with a friend who is not part of the convention. Took a cab down Commonwealth Ave. Downtown Boston is a military encampment. The uniforms were very strange, lots of weird colors, helmets, bullet-proof vests, handcuffs. A motorcade held up traffic, but I couldn't figure out who would be in such a large motorcade, and the special security was unbelievable. Heavy armored vehicles. Snipers on the roofs, armed guards at every public building, and this was several blocks from Fleet. As I left the convention area I felt a real sense of relief. If there's going to be an attack tonight I'm going to watch it on TV, I thought. I don't know how many other people feel like they're at Ground Zero when they're inside Fleet, but I feel it, even though it's not stopping me from having fun and doing new things, not knowing how it's going to come out is preventing me from drawing conclusions.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:47:54 GMT

NY Times: "If there was anything Senator John Kerry's strategists were hoping to avoid this week, it was the image of a Massachusetts liberal in funny headgear."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:35:04 GMT

Tim Jarrett: "Reading the convention blogs, one gets a feel of life on the FleetCenter floor that network TV may never again deliver."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:22:57 GMT

Marc Nozell shot this picture of me on Fox this morning.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:54:58 GMT

I'm up early to appear on Fox & Friends at 6:45AM Eastern.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:37:13 GMT

Convention Bloggers is a Yahoo Pick today."This site's front page works as a news aggregator, constantly refreshing its content as convention bloggers update their sites. This site proves that a simple idea can produce an excellent resource for anyone interested in more convention coverage than the cable news networks offer."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:25:22 GMT

Dowbrigade: "Our bus, like the majority of the others, parks as far away as possible from the fenced in protesters."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:22:14 GMT

Jessamyn: "Having a women's room that never had a line made up for almost every indignity that we had to deal with."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:27:54 GMT

Ted Kennedy: "The only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:32:35 GMT

Scoble: "The blogs are better than TV, but one problem is that I don't know where to go for the good stuff."

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:35:27 GMT

Talkleft: Name That Blogger.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:26:37 GMT

Google: "This page is not yet ready."