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Logging the national political conventions, 2004
July 25, 2005
Ad hoc blog workshop at the Sierra Summit?
When I posted about my panel at the Sierra Summit, Philippe Boucher wrote in suggesting we try to arrange for bloggers to meet at the conference or to offer some sort of workshop or hand's on event for people interested...(See full entry.)
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July 7, 2005
Sierra Summit 2005
I'll be speaking at the Sierra Summit on Saturday afternoon from 11:30 to 12:30 PM, on a panel in the Working Smart sequence called "Technology and Organizing: A Civics Laboratory." The panel features Joan Blades from MoveOn and Zack Rosen...(See full entry.)
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May 16, 2005
Personal Democracy Forum 2005
I'm at PDF2005 at CUNY in New York city today. I moderated a panel called "Tools and Ideas for Empowering the Edges" in the morning, so I'm off-duty now, able to participate as an audience member and on the...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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April 22, 2005
Second PDF conference in NY, May 16
Faithful readers of this site know that I am also a contributing editor at Personal Democracy Forum, a site about how technology is changing politics edited by Micah Sifry and founded by Andrew Rasiej. That site grew out of...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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March 15, 2005
My SXSW Tuesday schedule
10:00 Deliberative Democracy and Interactive Technology because for me today is all about politics and technology though 10:00 Web Design 2010: What Will the Web Look Like When It Turns 20? also looks like a great panel and I...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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March 14, 2005
Monday at SXSW, in prospect
10:00 How to Make Haste Slowly: Moving to the Cutting-Edge With Limited Resources because the topic fascinates me but this conflicts with a biweekly editorial conference call I'm on for PDF, so I unfortunately will probably miss it 11:30...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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Sunday at SXSW in retrospect
The day was kind of a blur. I've been taking notes when I've had an adequate power supply for my laptop, and I'll either post them raw or try to clean them up a bit when I get a breather....(See full entry.)
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March 13, 2005
Don't hate the player
Mark Miller is hatin' on SXSW: SXSW, at least the Interactive part, is not any fun. You have several people here, trying to be a "techie", yet failing miserably, with such panels as, "Bluffing your way through CSS", et cetera....(See full entry.)
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by xian
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No really, where are the women?
Quoting from So Many Great Women at SXSW From left to right: Me (Caterina Fake), Emily Davidow, Emily Gertz, Adina Levin, Mary Hodder. I'm here in Austin at SXSW Interactive, as is misbehaving.net founder Liz Lawley (who is sitting right...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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sxsw: eric meyer on emergent semantics (Liz Lawley)
Quoting from sxsw: eric meyer on emergent semantics (Liz Lawley), I noticed that her notes on Eric Meyer's session bear directly on the tagging discussion we're having in the solipsism panel now: He talks about microformats for solving specific problems,...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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Sunday SXSW Schedule
10:00 Emergent Semantics because Eric Meyer rocks or 10:00 Blogging Showdown even though metablogging is so 2003 11:30 How to Create a Compelling Community Website because in more than 10 years I still haven't figured this out or 11:30...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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SxSW: How to make big things happen with small teams
Quoting from terry storch @ fellowship church - SxSW: How to make big things happen with small teams... because he took great notes. By the way, found this post via the PubSub feed for SXSW that Scoble set up. Weblog:...(See full entry.)
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March 12, 2005
On my radar today
George is listing his planned schedule - good idea! Here's mine: 2:00 Zeldman's opening remarks (George already made all the good Jay-Z puns) 3:30 How to get the most out of SXSW (for I am a newbie after all) or...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Saturday, March 12, 2005
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August 30, 2004
Technorati revamps its politics section for the RNC
I was IMing with Dave Sifry last night (we're both in New York for the RNC - he's credentialed with CNN and I'm going commando). He showed me the new Election Watch 2004 page at Technorati. It tracks rising and...(See full entry.)
August 9, 2004
Credentials, schmedentials
Uncredentialed bloggers at the RNC now have a headquarters to work from (MyDD :: NYC GOP street bloggers): the venue is called the tank, and it's located at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater, about a 15-minute walk NW of Madison Square...(See full entry.)
The failure of the mass media
Zogby Sound Bites! reprints a commentary by alan Bisbort of The Valley Advocate noting that al Jazeera and the bloggers did a better job of covering the convention than the major networks did. An excerpt: Before examining this any further,...(See full entry.)
Democrats still taking black voters for granted?
Erin Aubry Kaplan takes a look at the DNC and notices the prominent role played by African-Americans there as well as the reluctance to address some long-simmering issues with the party in that community (in LA Weekly: News: Bringin' Da...(See full entry.)
August 8, 2004
Convention in review
Dave Johnson from Seeing the Forest has posted a two-part convention retrospective and promises "more to come." I've been remiss myself, but I plead visiting family. It's just hard to write long entries about politics and activism when you've got...(See full entry.)
July 31, 2004
Missed potential at the DNC
Cam Barrett thinks the convention blogging could have been a great deal more directed as well as more participatory. He was consulted early on but apparently most of his suggestions were not acted on....(See full entry.)
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July 29, 2004
Open source anarchy
Alan at The Command Post did a little local reporting around an anarchist protest today: Here's something else I found interesting: the protest was not organized ... it just emerged from the morning ether. Seems there's a local organization that...(See full entry.)
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I am quoted accurately, for once
Scot Peterson of eWeek interviewed me on Monday and filed a thoughtful report today: Bloggers Make Their Presence Felt at DNC. In stringing together my quotes, I think he was forced to manufacture some connecting words, and the result is...(See full entry.)
Not for sale, really?
Maybe for scoops this week, we should be paying close attention to the people who are both "real" journalists and "real" bloggers, people like Micah Sifry. Speaking of whom, meeting Sifry (he and Dave each refer to each other as...(See full entry.)
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on Thursday, July 29, 2004
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Who has the photos from Meze?
Wow, the D triple C and SpeakerPelosi.com really put on the dog for us bloggers. A great restaurant. VIP treatment (meaning, open bar for bloggers). Good music. Pretty decent swag. Most of all good company based around a core of...(See full entry.)
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July 28, 2004
The Jerry Springer show
Jerry Springer came up to the blogger section and Kos introduced me to him. Everyone flocked around to have their pictures taken with Jerry. Jerome snapped this one of me: That's Jesse behind me, Kos to the right, and a...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Wednesday, July 28, 2004
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Hack in a nutshell
Trolling around the first floor looking for interviews I passed Sam Donaldson giving an interview to a local radio dj. Without being too obvious, I tried to look at the marmoset that lives on his head. I thought for...(See full entry.)
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Immediacy is overrated
Dave Johnson from Seeing The Forest (hey, Dave, weren't you going to send me an essay on political language?) makes a very good point in his entry entitled Read Bloggers Next Week, Too!: I think the best stuff from the...(See full entry.)
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on Wednesday, July 28, 2004
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Spreading myself thin
First, a reminder that I'm blogging this convention in a number of different spaces. One way to see everything I'm publishing on my own servers is to go to my monolog aggregrated blog. I had big plans to make it...(See full entry.)
July 27, 2004
Politics to the people
It's too bad David Weinberger didn't hold out long enough to hear Michael Moore speak, because (yes, yes, I will post a summary soon - it's very noisy here in the hall and Jerry Springer is schmoozing with the bloggers)...(See full entry.)
Michael Moore addresses Take Back America
After getting my credentials this morning and eating some Thai food for lunch, I hopped in a cab with Aldon Hynes and David Weinberger and headed across the Charles to a rally for a group called Campaign for America's...(See full entry.)
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July 26, 2004
Essence of the breakfast
Liberal Oasis reports on the blogger breakfast, picking up on the contrast between Walter Mears defense of journalistic ideal of objectivity vs. Howard Dean's observation that these days opinions masquerades as news on the front pages of some of our...(See full entry.)
The first convention blogger
When bloggers were credentialed a lot of people pointed out that this was a first, and someone snarkily commented something to the effect of "uh, there weren't any blogs in 2000." Of course, that isn't true. Even the word blog...(See full entry.)
Morning in America
I've posted a bunch of my patented "blurry but that's so it looks dynamic" photos, mostly from the second breakfast this morning in a photo album site. I'm still in the process of giving them informative names and captions,...(See full entry.)
The matchmaker
Matt Stoller took a bunch of us down to the Democratic News Service bullpen to meet Chris Casey, who will attempt to broker brief interviews with VIPs us. This place is a zoo. It's actually calmer and more relaxed inside...(See full entry.)
Where's the story?
Last night I saw Kerry at Fenway and although I slept four hours after arriving in the morning I ended up staying awake until about 3 am east-coast time - so much for my brilliant plan to defeat jet lag....(See full entry.)
Keeping up with the blogses
Taegan Goddard points to three places to keep up with convention bloggers: Political Wire: Tracking the Convention Bloggers Unfortunately, I don't think Dave Winer's aggregrator includes any of the blogs I'm writing for at the convention (aside from the Greater...(See full entry.)
Gathering of Dean 'shadow' delegates
Burnt Orange Report covers Saturday's Democray Fest pre-convention gathering of "Howard Dean delegates, 'shadow' delegates like us who are officially John Kerry (etc.) delegates but Deaniacs at heart, and other hardcore volunteers and Blog for America commenters."...(See full entry.)
July 24, 2004
Atrios carefully lowers expectations of convention bloggers
At Eschaton, pseudonymous blogger Atrios* questions whether there's anything newsworthy about bloggers credentialed to cover the convention and whether it's likely that bloggers will unearth any news: I mean, if you'd prefer hear me announce the basketball game instead of...(See full entry.)
July 22, 2004
Metablogging the convention
Susan Mernit has the deets on the big CNN plus Technorati story. Dave Sifry will be providing expert commentary, mined - I gather - from the Technorati data set. w00t!...(See full entry.)
July 16, 2004
Will convention bloggers be 'tamed into centrism'?
The New York Times editorializing about the Democratic National Convention's press-credentialed bloggers in Conventioneering.com, wonders if this will result in a cooptation of bloggers' fiercely independent cast: . L. Mencken is said to have guffawed and slapped his thigh in delight at times as he would write about a typical ...(See full entry.)
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