Bawstun's Blog Fest: "Blogging from Boston"

*Yet Another Update*


Blogger features an article authored (Monday, July 26, 2004) by Biz Stone, who works at Google on Blogger and writes books about blogging, concerning *Bawstun's Blog Fest*.

Salon  published this must-read article (July 28, 2004): The new blogocracy [via evhead, here]:

Bloggers at the Democratic National Convention signify a shift in media, but not a replacement for mainstream coverage. Their role will be to fill in the gaps, expose the underlying magic, and keep everyone on their toes. What they are doing cannot be compared to journalism; it can only be described as blogging.

CNN goes blog bigtime, diving head-first in an attempt at journalizing and covering the political Blogosphere and, specifically the DNC Convention blogging, from a media perspective.

Of course CNN knows all too well what it is like to not be taken seriously by the media, press and the political establishment itself, when it first started out and for several years when it was considered merely a poor cousin or whatever, back when a cable news outlet was still considered nothing more than a joke by many. That is not the case any longer however.

So if they are taking political blogging seriously, it is definitely quite the statement coming from them.

The Thursday, July 29, 2004 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) published an article written by Wyatt Buchanan who ponders the question of Bloggers: The new media or a fad?

*Update*: In fact, P-I Reporter Todd Bishop blogged mention (here) of the above article on a P-I business news online journal (here), which provides regular Microsoft coverage.

The blogging question

The P-I's man in Boston, Wyatt Buchanan, has an interesting story this morning: Bloggers: The new media or a fad? The story is centered around the Democratic National Convention, but the question has long-term implications for Microsoft and other companies looking at ways to incorporate blogging into their marketing and product strategies.

In conjunction with the story, seattlepi.com's daily poll asks the same question posed by the headline. I'll post the results here tomorrow.

The same edition of P-I also featured by Anick Jesdanunap, Associated Press (AP) Internet Writer, an article about Convention bloggers are feeling their way.

Columnist and author John C. Dvorak pens a column, which featured in CBS's MarketWatch (July 28, 2004) concerning: Blogging at the convention

Commentary: Results of novel experiment prove mixed

Voice of America features an article, complete with links to an audio version, by Stephanie Ho (July 28, 2004) reporting that the: Democratic Convention Grants Media Credentials to 'Bloggers'.

In the Houston Chronicle (July 28, 2004), Clifford Pugh reports that Bloggers are becoming talk of convention:

Their coverage isn't journalism, some say, but they could be creating a lasting presence

*Yet Another Update*

An excellent, definite must-read Infoshop News interview with Jessamyn West at the Democratic National Convention (July 27, 2004).


Centerfield, a Weblog of Centrist Voices in American Politics, blogs this interesting perspective from *Bawstun's Blog Fest* (Thursday, July 29, 2004): Seriously Reducing U.S. Homelessness?

[via The Homeless Guy]


Just posted on the Boston.com (Boston Globe) Website only about an hour ago and, most certainly, is yet another must-read: Up in the rafters, bloggers are flying high

By Teresa M. Hanafin, Boston.com Staff | July 29, 2004

They don’t have space in the media pavilion, and are forced to pay exorbitant prices for lunch at the press café – unless they are willing to wait in long lines at McDonald’s in the FleetCenter or bring their own food.

The crowded workspace they do have is in the rafters of the convention hall, which they would be sharing with pigeons if this were the old Boston Garden.

They are bloggers: Those who write weblogs, online journals of sorts with regular entries chronicling anything from the latest in tech gadgets to opinions on the Iraq war to personal reflections on their favorite band or the joys of growing eggplant – most with extensive links to other weblogs or websites, helping to fulfill the promise of the Internet by serving as one part of the connective tissue that is the worldwide Web.

They may not have much in the way of amenities here, but they are wearing a piece of gold around their necks: Credentials certifying them as members of the media sanctioned to cover the Democratic National Convention.

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Read the article in full, here.


From National Public Radio (NPR), a report via audio: Slate's Kausfiles: Blogging the DNC Convention

July 29, 2004

Slate political blogger Mickey Kaus talks with NPR's Noah Adams about the speech by vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, and what to expect from presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry's acceptance speech Thursday.

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*Note*: Posted additional information and links: last updated on Thursday, July 29, 2004 at 4:01 PM [EDT].