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Progressives Have a Big Tent at the Dem Convention

By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted July 14, 2008.

A tent for 800 journalists, bloggers and activists will be set up at Denver's Democratic Convention site.

Few activities are more filled with political insiders than national political party conventions. But this August in Denver, a coalition of progressive groups hopes to broaden the coverage and conversation surrounding the Democratic Convention by hosting 800 bloggers, nonprofit leaders and independent journalists.

Pam's House Blend makes the WRAL local news website.

The Dome has a post today that opens a new and important conversation about the interplay of blogging, journalism, liability and risk. I don't expect there to be any immediate answers, but there's no doubt these issues will escalate over time. As more and more content finds its way into the blogosphere, the lines between what works and what doesn't will be hard to define. Between all the open-source content available, as well as the never-ending cross-posting and linking of images, stories, video, etc., the lines are blurring as never before.

In any case, here's the opening salvo.

I thought some of y'all would be interested in this revival of the Tarheel Tavern:

Cut and paste the code in the blockquotes to post the banners anywhere you care to. Here's to the 3rd term!

<a href="http://ncdp.org/taxonomy/term/110"><img src="http://www.ncdp.org/files/img/mccain/234x60_mccain_01.png" alt="McCain - The Third Bush Term" width="234" height="60" /></a>

Yestday on the open thread there was a conversation about the merits of netroots activism vs street action. I believe the conversation was started with this comment:

Maybe if those who think they are doing their part by being keyboard commandos will leave their comfortable chairs and take to the streets, the GOP won't be able to manipulate the vote again.

A lot of folks jumped in to defend the power of the netroots as being more effective than "protesting." While the disrespectful tone of the preceding comment prompted that reaction, I don't think it is the right one.

Once upon a time . . .

North Carolina BlogNetNews has a new editor: me.

As some of you know, I run a blog in Cabarrus County called Cabarrus Cheap Seats. Right now, I'm looking for blogs that meet the following criteria:

- Are at least 90 days old
- Are updated at least weekly (not counting hiatuses)
- Have 1/3 or greater content that's North Carolina-based.
- Isn't the official blog of a political or advocacy organization.

Please e-mail me at justin@cabarruscheapseats.com if you'd like your blog included. Here are blogs associated with BlueNC that are already participating in BlogNetNews North Carolina:

- BlueNC
- Lefton49
- NCPolitico

Extravablogiversapaloozathon 2007 is almost here. BlogAsheville celebrates over two years of bloggy goodness with a big bash on Saturday, Sept. 29. Come over the jump to see the art and vote in the BlogAsheville Awards.

Originally posted at Scrutiny Hooligans - I thought I'd put it here unedited to let the BlueNC community know what's up with the new name on the block.

Hello. My name is Gordon Smith.