Blogging 'dem Dems

So much hype this week about blogs and the appearance of bloggers on the political and media landscape that you'd think aliens had landed in Boston. (After accidently seeing Ann Coulter on Fox while convention channel-surfing maybe aliens did indeed land. There sure seemd to be a lot of foam around the corners of her mouth.)

So is it significant? If you read some of the mainsteam media articles and note that a few of them have even set up their own blogs, it may be significant in terms of a step towards wider acceptance among the public of what blogs are and how they can be useful. For the uninitiated two articles sum up the world of blogs, blogging, and bloggers pretty well.
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Convention coverage reaches into 'blogosphere': From my favorite columnist here at our local paper comes a well-balanced and informed look at what blogs are and why you might want to care. Frank cerabino writes:

The Democrats have readily embraced the bloggers, and word is the Republicans in New York next month plan to carve out some convention hall space for them, too.

For the first time, they are insiders, people who have their own wireless perches in the convention hall, where they will sit shoulder to jowl with the mainstream media they find so inadequate.

This convention, they say, is just the first acknowledgement of a form of communication that already has become important in the world of ideas.

Candidates, realizing the chance to get their message out to a broader audience in a cost-effective way, have created blogs of their own during the past couple of years.

John Kerry employs three full-time bloggers to write chatty updates from the campaign trail.

"The blogging world has unleashed a very competitive environment," said Dick Bell, whose job title is "blogmaster" for the Kerry campaign. "The barriers to entry is zero. The only barrier to entry is your time."

Meanwhile, over at Wired News, a more techie-centered take on the world of blogging:

I think what's going on is the same thing that happened to cable news. A rash of ideologues rose up to lasso big ratings on Fox News, proving that objective journalism isn't nearly as entertaining as good ol' fashioned punditry. Now blogs are having a similar impact.

Four years ago, online news organizations were first credentialed for the convention -- and that was pretty big news. This time, it's blogs. Maybe the big media story in 2008 will be that every delegate will have his or her own reality show, streamed over the Internet.

So, with all the big news out of the world of political blogs, is anything informative coming out of all of this? In particular, are the amateur journalist bloggers (non-traditional media journalist types) adding anything to the coverage of the convention? Let's have a quick look at a few. The links here were all found at the HardBlogger website, MSNBC's answer to the blogging phenoms.

Daily Kos: A very well established political blog, Kos does seem to be the standard that the other political blogs are measured by. A very active community, with hundreds of comments posted on each entry that is made, DailyKos might be seen as a traditional blog in that it incorporates the whole "us vs. them" mentality of many bloggers, mixed with a few tidbits of information. But hey, He gets 105,000 readers every day, much more than most newspapers, so there must be something good going on there right?

Afro-Netizen: For a more intersting take on the convention, and specifically how it looks through the eyes of the only African-American blogger at the big show, this blog by Christopher Rabb is filled with his personal take on the goings on in Boston that is much more intersting than a bunch of bloggers talking about who's blogging at the big show. His take on the star turn by Barack Obama, including a link to the full text of his speech are much appreciated, as well as informative. This, to me, is what an effective blog should do. Give voice to an under-represented group.

For plain old naughty gossip, you can't do better than Wonkette. She's been titillating the inside the beltway crowd sowewhat famously for the past year or so, but her own take on the convention is worth a good chuckle. Of course, it appeals to my inner guy, hoping that women really are as interested in sex as we are. Okay, make that obsessed, but you know what I mean.

Finally, the best blow-by-blow take on the convention seems to me to be offered over at Pandagon. Yes, the language might be a little Dick Cheney-esque (a little too much use of the word "suck", and another that rhymes with it), but the real-time posting gives this particular blog a level of authenticity that is lacking in some of the others.

So, plug those blogs into your favorite RSS feed, or head on over to HardBlogging and run through the list on your own. There are 35 bloggers with credentials at the convention, and while it might be hard to define the work they are doing as ground-breaking, what we might be seeing is the development of a new form of journalism--citizen reporting that is readily availalbe to all. In the end, the raising of blogging to a higher level in the conciousness of the average person may be the most significan thing to come out of this particular blog-o-rama.

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