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June 8, 2006

Part 2: Hip media, bloggers, readers and Dems convene in Vegas

If you missed Part 1: My projo.com homepage headlines vanished today, I think because I updated a time stamp and that post leapfrogged the latest creation date. Neither of today's two posts got out there for long. The topic: The gathering of self-identified progressive political bloggers at the first YearlyKos convention at the Riviera in Las Vegas.

How to check into this stream:

"Tags" are keywords -- categories by subject -- attached to blog posts and photos to make them easily retrievable when searched. The tag "yearlykos" at Technorati (blog posts) and Flickr (photos)
-- is now working. More and better blog results seem to come from a straight keyword search at T'rati. It's easier and timelier to point you to the ongoing flow of published posts than to track them here. Most of those will link to others, so you can follow as many breadcrumbs as you can handle.

A couple, though:

Nice Flickr photo chronology, with lots of folks' faces matched to familiar names, from Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise, where she's blogging all this

Uh-oh: Ezra Klein writes at Tapped (photograph by Lindsay):

YearlyKos: Wondering why the magazines are a bit quiet? Possibly because large segments of their staffs are in Las Vegas, making a fishbowl of YearlyKos. In the rooms I've been in, attendees have barely outnumbered those writing about the attendees. A CAP-sponsored seminar on media appearances this morning saw the second row populated by The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash, The National Review's Byron York, and The American Prospect's me. Also darting in and out of the session were The New Republic's Ryan Lizza, Time's Ana Marie-Cox, Salon's Michael Scherer, a Chicago Tribune reporter, and Maureen Dowd. And this was not, mind you, a large room."

Due to Times Select, the NYT's euphemism for locking the bluechip columnists behind the pay wall, I found myself thinking, "Maureen Dowd? Is she still around?" Ker-plunk.

At the top of the ladder, the number of readers dwindles sharply. How's that for a kick in the pants?

(Mark Glaser at PBS' Media Shift parodies Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall" in an impassioned appeal to the Times publisher to drop the pay wall.)

Classic "live-blogging the convention" opening post, from Dave Johnson (Seeing the Forest). We've all been there.

From YearlyKos:

I'm posting from the lobby at YearlyKos, sitting on the floor, next to the bathroom, across from the registration desk. This is because they have free wireless here, and it costs a bunch to get hooked up in the rooms, and I'm really cheap....

...Arriving here, being in the line to check into my room, and heading to where YearlyKos is, I had a strange feeling like I sort of recognized lots of people. Yet I didn't quite. Of course, I did recognize the people I know, but so many other people that seemed familiar... why is that? And then in front of the registration desk for YearlyKos there's a crowd of people, but 're all looking at each other's badges for clues to who everyone is, because we all know each other from online but have never seen each other. I think you'll probably read the same observation at other blogs, and in diaries at Kos.

Is the wi-fi still up? 1,500 laptops on any convention pipe usually bring it down.

Meanwhile, back at DailyKos this morning, Markos was chewing out diarists for all blogging "Zarqawi is dead" at the same time, rather than chiming in on the post of the first one to the publish.

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