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BOSTON, July 27, 2004 -- Three dozen or so bloggers have descended from above their garages to cover the Democratic National Convention in Boston, sparking much interest but as yet little real news from the floor. Will bloggers beat the traditional journalists to the punch or will they fall into line (behind the others) at the buffet of tightly scripted sound bytes and political bromides? Stay tuned.
Here's MediaChannel's rundown of bloggers to watch. You can also read all of them at once by visiting ConventionBloggers.com, a portal that aggregates RSS (Rich Site Summary) headlines from participating blogs.
Name: Alan Nelson
Blog: command-post.org
Description: "This is not a professional news service . . .we are just a group of bloggers from around the world trying to post the latest professional news that we have seen, heard, or read."
Name: Dave Winer
Blog: Scripting News
Description: Scripting News is the longest continuously running weblog on the Internet."The current motto is 'There's no time like now'…Let's make the Web the fantastic free writing environment it was always meant to be. Let's help each other create the revolution and fully realize the potential of the Web. No more fear. I love you guys. It's time to kick butt..."
Name: Taegan Goddard
Blog: Political Wire
Description: A political column updated around the clock with the most interesting news, buzz and commentary. Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Name: Jay Rosen
Blog: PressThink
Description: Rosen is a press critic and writer whose primary focus is the media's role in a democracy. A member of the NYU journalism faculty since 1986, he is the current chair, and teaches courses in media criticism, cultural journalism, press ethics and the journalistic tradition, among other subjects.
Name: Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
Blog: The Daily Kos
Description: Moulitsas' latest project (with Jerome Armstrong) is OurCongress.org, a site tracking the nation's hottest races.
Name: Jerome Armstrong
Blog: MyDD
Description: A mostly political blog. The bloggers, Jerome Armstrong and Chris Bowers, with guest blogs by Matt Stoller, provide their own analysis and commentary on campaigns, elections, and world affairs.
Name: Aldon Hynes
Blog: Greater Democracy
Description: Greater Democracy was formed "to look critically at the governance structures and models currently operating in the U.S., considering what works, what doesn't work, and (especially) what might work much better."
Name: Jeralyn Merritt
Blog: TalkLeft
Description: The on-line source for liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news. Talkleft is intended for the public, journalists covering crime-based news and politics, policy makers and of course, the criminal defense community.
Name: Tom Burka
Blog: Opinions You Should Have and The American Street
Description: Opinions You Should Have will also have two Oregon state delegates blogging from the convention, Jenny Greenleaf and "BeckyG".
Name: Paul McCullum, Will Oemler and Allison Grady
Blog: Dinner for America
Description: Represents 30 million young people "who are trying to make sense of the baffling, absurd, and hilarious world of American politics. DFA allows young people across the country to build their own political perspective through breaking news, in depth articles and news clips as well as upload their own political media. Suddenly, politics is hip again."
Name: Joshua Micah Marshall
Blog: Talking Points Memo
Description: As professional as blogs come, this site is the brainchild of an experienced (bricks and mortar) political columnist, whose gained a growing audience and some ongoing revenue in the blogosphere.
Name: Josh Chafetz
Blog: OxBlog
Description: The off-the-cuff political commentary of Josh Chafetz, a 2001 Rhodes Scholar and graduate student in politics at Oxford, David Adesnik, a 2000 Rhodes Scholar and graduate student in international relations at Oxford currently residing in Cambridge, Mass., and Patrick Belton, a graduate student in international relations at Oxford.
Name: Rick Heller
Blog: The Centrist Coalition's Blog
Description: ". . .a gathering place for moderate Americans who have a certain distinct vision of political leadership in our country… We believe strong leadership involves a bold mix of views drawn partly from the right and partly the left."
Name: Matthew Gross
Blog: Matthew Gross
Description: Mathew Gross "rewrote the rules of presidential politics" and "put blogging at the center of the Democrats' nominating campaign "when he launched the first presidential campaign weblog for Howard Dean in March of 2003.
Name: Byron LaMasters
Blog: BurntOrangeReport
Description: "We are all students at the University of Texas at Austin (ok, well Jim has graduated now). We blog about National politics, Texas politics, Austin politics, UT and other college issues, and anything else that interests us."
Name: Jessamyn Charity West
Blog: Librarian.net
Description: Links to things online that "I think are interesting and thought provoking, as well as some discussion of a few of those topics. I want librarian.net to bring out the librarian flavor on the web."
Name: Dave Pell
Blog: Electablog
Description: Dave Pell is an award winning writer who has been spreading the word via the web since he launched the Davenetics tech newsletter (now back as blog) in the early days of the internet boom. Dave is a centrist Democrat, but he likes to criticize all sides (Dems, Republicans and Mel Gibson).
Name: Natasha C.
Blog: Pacific Views
Description: The political view from Seattle.
Name: Jesse Taylor and Ezra Klein
Blog: Pandagon.net
Description: Jesse Taylor B.A., Religion, Swarthmore College. Ezra Klein junior at UCLA.
Name: Michael Feldman
Blog: Dowbrigade News
Description: Hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Name: Gordon Joseloff
Blog: WestportNow.com
Description: Founded in March 2003, WestportNow is one of only a handful of non-newspaper, non-broadcast professionally written and edited community news sites in the nation.
Name: Christopher Rabb
Blog: Afro-Netizen
Description: "I have every confidence that with continued support and input from readers like you, Afro-Netizen will successfully transform from an underground avocation in its infancy into a full-fledged, innovative and independent Black institution dedicated to informing, inspiring, and engaging people of African descent and others for the benefit of our community."
Name: Kirk W. Johnson
Blog: American Amnesia
Description: "The underlying aspiration of this blog is to determine if and how our tendency to forget our own history is shaping our current foreign policy."
Name: Bill Scher
Blog: Liberal Oasis
Description: "Where the left is right and the right is wrong. LiberalOasis is on a mission to reclaim the good name of liberals."
Name: Peter Rukavina
Blog: Reinvented.net
Description: Web designer turned political blogger/journalist. Go figure?
Name: Joe Rospars
Blog: NotGeniuses and BlogforAmerica
Description: Not Geniuses is dedicated to the idea that "non-geniuses can provide funny, interesting and relevant political commentary. We may be completely wrong about that, but we're not geniuses, so perhaps dumb ideas are to be expected."
Name: Allen Larson
Blog: Larsonreport
Description: "The plan is for the Larson Report to become an active online forum where ideas can be aired that are often overwhelmed by the noise of contentious advocacy in other settings."
Name: Matt Stoller
Blog: Blogging of the President
Description: Blogging of the President is a group blog done by a number of people. The editor is Matt Stoller. Chris Lydon, Stirling Newberry, Jay Rosen, Ellen Nagler, Barry Ritholz, Ian Welsh, Marcy Wheeler, Zephyr Teachout, Ally Giard, Justin Krebs, and Josh Koenig contribute.
Name: Alison Teal
Blog: Hot Flashes from the Campaigntrail
Description: "Hot flashes are usually a private matter. Alison Teal shares hers on the Kerry 2004 campaign trail."
Name: Nathan Paxton
Blog: Nateknowsnada.org
Description: A student in political science at Harvard, Paxton loves politics from an analytical philosophical point of view. He's queer and religious -- Anglican Christian.
Name: Christian Crumlish
Blog: ThePowerofMany, Greater Democracy and Radiofreeblogistan
Description: "Topics may include but are not limited to blog, wiki, personal publishing, microcontent, nanopublishing, syndication, online community building, the living web, shilling xian's new book The Power of Many, and related, ugh, don't say it! memes."
Name: Steve Soto
Blog: The Left Coaster
Description: An outside-the-Beltway perspective on current events, politics, media, and the arts. -- Steve Soto seems to be the main blooger but about 8 other people also post to the same blog.
Name: Sean Munson
Blog: Logical Realism
Description: "This site got started with a couple of friends in 2000 or so, then after a few months of enthusiasm, was largely abandoned. I've picked it up again, largely as a way for me to think out loud, but publicly, so that others can challenge me, ask questions, disagree, or point me to additional views."
Name: John Burns
Blog: Stinging Nettle
Description: John Burns tries to be everywhere at once.
Name: Dave Johnson
Blog: Seeing the Forest
Description: Portland geeks do politics.
Name:Anna Marie Cox
Blog:Wonkette
Description: NYT: "With her gossipy, raunchy, potty-mouthed blog, Ms. Cox, a 31-year-old self-described failed journalist, has grabbed the attention of staid Washington, where gossip columns usually amount to little more than records of Capitol Hill staff changes and James Carville sightings."
Name:"Anonymous" aka Duncan Black
Blog:Eschaton
Description: An anonymous blogger who's based in Philadelphia but has a large national following.
Name:Todd Beeton and David Rock
Blog:Dave and Todd's Wild Democracy Ride
Description: "The Internet has helped to energize and unite the left, perhaps the same way radio energized the right, and it has helped bring Democrats the closest they have ever been to fundraising parity with Republicans."
Name:Carl Brooks
Blog:Media Eeky
Description: Pissed off and blogging
Name:Jamie Kirchick
Blog:Off the Fence
Description: "I've been called, "precocious" by Andrew Sullivan, a "neo-Stalinist" by former New York Daily News columnist Jim Sleeper and am typically referred to as a "fascist-in-training," "that asshole Kirchick" or "that asshole YDN columnist" . . .".
Name:Adam Mordecai
Blog:Change for America
Description: Established to "challenge the existing order in our nation."
Name:Jeeni Criscenzo
Blog:CPR4Democracy
Description: I've put my money (all of it) where my heart is - working to save our democracy. In May 2004, I sold everything I own to buy a small motor home and set out to travel America, looking for the positive things ordinary people are doing to make this a great country."
Name:Rory O'Connor
Blog:Media Is a Plural
Description: MediaChannel's very own, O'Connor brings decades of experience to bear in a furiously funny blog about all things media.
Name:Danny Schechter
Blog:The News Dissector
Description: MediaChannel's executive editor, Schechter takes a part mainstream media with a finely tuned scalpal.
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