{"id":2487,"date":"2004-07-29T21:09:43","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T01:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/07\/29\/convention-retrospective-part-1\/"},"modified":"2004-07-29T21:09:43","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T01:09:43","slug":"convention-retrospective-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/07\/29\/convention-retrospective-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention Retrospective, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Okay, here we go.  Back in our seat in Blogger’s Row, where fistfights
\n are about to break out over seating space. Part of the problem is that
\n the joint is absolutely packed to the rafter’s for this, the final night
\n of the Convention, the frenzied build-up to the Kerry acceptance speech
\n rocking the joint with manic energy. The other reason, we suspect, is that word has leaked out that we have the only functioning, publicly accessable Wi-Fi web in the Hall. There are sure a lot more than 35 laptops up here on Blogger’s Row tonight.<\/p>\n

We have notes for a good half dozen
\n posts waiting in our notebook, the prose is flowing, but we are dead
\n on our feet and fading fast. On the way into the hall we were mesmerized
\n by a line of slot machines along one side of a main concourse.  Wow!
\n When did they legalize THOSE babies in the Commonwealth? Turns out they
\n were Compaq flat screen email stations. So before things get out of hand,
\n lets get to the blogging!<\/p>\n

As a member of the Freshman Class of Major Party Nominating Conventions,
\n we would like to take this moment to do a little meta-blogging, and comment
\n on the effects of having blogger here, their success or failure, and
\n what it all means. What better place than here in the placid eye of the
\n political hurricane, guarding our seat at Ground
\n Zero, to get a little perspective from the whole thing and sum it up
\n in a few rash generalizations.<\/p>\n

First of all, the various aggregators set up to collect and collate
\n all of the postings from the convention bloggers (some including bloggers
\n on the outside) have been performing an invaluable service both to the
\n bloggers and their readers. Personally, I like the one set up by Dave
\n Winer<\/a>, called Convention
\n Bloggers<\/a>. We love being able to check up on what everyone else is
\n posting as we all sit here staring at our screens, and you get a wonderful
\n kaleidoscope of views on each of the speakers as they parade on stage.
\n The strange and secret process used by the Convention organizers to select
\n the Bloggers has yielded a true variety of political positions, blogging
\n styles and levels of seriousness.<\/p>\n

The buzz around the Row is that for the really astute political analyses
\n and cutting irreverence for which blogger are known we will have to wait
\n until next week, after the pundits have had time to digest, reflect,
\n sleep and then in the peace and solitude in which they are accustomed
\n to work, tell us all what it meant. We hope the aggregators are still
\n up and running next week.<\/p>\n

In fact, we hope the aggregators are still up and running a MONTH from
\n now, during the REPUBLICAN Convention. The Republicans will be having
\n Bloggers, too. However, instead of soliciting applications, they have
\n hand picked and invited about 20 individuals who they feel will fit right
\n in. <\/p>\n

We doubt that many of the Bloggers here will also be among the anointed
\n 20 in NYC, although Dave Winer<\/a> is
\n reporting that Jay
\n Rosen<\/a> has been invited.  On
\n the other hand, we are sure this crew, political junkies all, will have
\n a
\n lot to
\n say
\n about
\n the
\n Republican
\n gab
\n fest in
\n 5 weeks, and it would be fascinating to follow their comments and comparisons
\n as they watch along on cable TV.<\/p>\n

Plus, we absolutely MUST add the invited Republican bloggers to the
\n list.  How fascinating to read and integrate what they write with
\n what the bloggers who had been in Boston will write.<\/p>\n

The possibilities for using aggregation to collect and juxtapose information
\n streams from otherwise independent sources are staggering and expanding
\n as fast as people can think.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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