Category: conventionology

Met (and saw) fewer new people today, but spent time with some of the same folks from yesterday, and hung out a lot with Ted and Kirsten: * [Kiersten Lammerding](http://yahoo.com/) (got a better link k-lo?) * KD / Kristy (klo’s friend from the evil empire) * [Ted Nadeau](http://dotline.com/) * [Robert Scoble](http://scobleizer.com/) * [Chris Messina](http://factoryjoe.com/) *…

Links are people I talked to. Nonlinks are people I spotted but didn’t talk to. I know I’m leaving people out from Break Bread with Brad at Buffalo Billiards. I didn’t always get everyone’s name and by then my beer-to-food ratio was really out of whack (had only southwest peanuts all day until George kicked…

Life’s been a little crazy for personal journaling lately, but the pent-up urge to blog is reasserting itself. I flew into JFK on the jetblue redeye last night and have been holed up in the family compound in Manhattan today drinking liquids and recovering. Tomorrow I’ll check out the Tank and the other liberal bloggers…

Was the counterconvention this well organized in Boston? Didn’t seem to be. The People’s Guide to the Republican National Convention Note to left-wing marketers: “The People’s anything” is a salesbuster.

Can we read anything into this report (Colin Powell will skip GOP convention)? Brings to mind Bill Maher’s recent quip about Keyes running for senator in Illinois, to the effect that the Republicans couldn’t find Osama, couldn’t find weapons of mass destruction, and couldn’t find an African-American in Chicago.

The future doesn’t belong to fear. It belongs to freedom. – John Forbes Kerry