{"id":1533,"date":"2003-10-05T21:46:50","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T01:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/05\/rock-on-bloggercon\/"},"modified":"2003-10-05T21:46:50","modified_gmt":"2003-10-06T01:46:50","slug":"rock-on-bloggercon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/05\/rock-on-bloggercon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock On, BloggerCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1351'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/cordean.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"224\" align=\"left\">In a moment of alarming<br \/>\n        cognitive dissonance, BloggerCon &#8217;03 ended this afternoon with a blistering<br \/>\n        accordian arrangement of Steppenwolf&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steppenwolf.com\/lyr\/brntbwld.html\">&quot;Born<br \/>\n        to Be Wild&quot;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Despite my pre-conference jitters that it would be too roudy and my early-conference<br \/>\n      fears that it would be deadly dull, it was neither.&nbsp; Early in the<br \/>\n    conference Dave had announced that since the joint was lousy with journalists,<br \/>\n      mainstream and freelance, everything said on campus was on the record.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\n        think that partiallyu put a damper on the discussion for a while &#8211; a<br \/>\n      lot of over-monitoring was going on, until that 19-year-oild Graham cracker<br \/>\n      bust<br \/>\n      out and declared that the voter&#8217;s didn&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass about the issues,<br \/>\n    so why should the campaigns?<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We KNOW that&#8217;s what politicians think, you cynical shmuck,&quot; I wanted<br \/>\n    to yell, &quot;But you&#8217;re NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY IT IN PUBLIC.&quot; Oh well, the kid&#8217;s<br \/>\n      still young.&nbsp; He&#8217;ll survive and learn to lie another day.&nbsp; Or<br \/>\n      maybe not; politics is a cutthroat game these days.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a good time was had by all.&nbsp; I made some new friends, heard<br \/>\n      a bunch of new ideas, and even had a few myself.&nbsp;What more can one<br \/>\n      ask for in a conference? All-in-all, a worthwile effort and food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a moment of alarming cognitive dissonance, BloggerCon &#8217;03 ended this afternoon with a blistering accordian arrangement of Steppenwolf&#8217;s &quot;Born to Be Wild&quot;. Despite my pre-conference jitters that it would be too roudy and my early-conference fears that it would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/05\/rock-on-bloggercon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}