Category: The Power of Many

  • 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 disgruntled looking “serious photographer” in the back.

  • 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 sure it was a rug but now I’m thinking it really may just be an outrageous…

  • 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 bloggers will be next week. Too much is happening, and I know that I need…

  • 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 to the California delegations breakfast this morning, to hear Boxer and Feinstein among others, but…

  • 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) Moore made the point that polls of “likely voters” might not accurately predict the turnout…

  • 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 Future which seemed geared toward inspiring progressive youth to support the Democrats and not stray into…