Five thousand out-of-staters showed up in Iowa and alienated locals. In 2004 the Dean campaign used the Internet to mobilize voters. And I'm not going to be a party to that.īURKE: And according to blogger Mickey Kaus of the online magazine Slate, Internet politicking can backfire. I've noticed the communities censoring themselves for fear of what they might think, you know, the ubiquitous they. O'CONNOR: The atmosphere at several of the bigger left wing blogs has become a little bit restrictive. I'd rather stay on the outside and critique than get inside and face the possibility, I think the very great possibility, of being assimilated into that culture.īURKE: O'Connor says she's already seen a chilling affect online in recent months. MARY SCOTT O'CONNOR (): I would rather be a gadfly. But can bloggers handle the pressure of big tent politics? They can be a fractious bunch and not everyone at the yearly Kos convention is enthusiastic about a push to consolidate the political might of the progressive blogoshpere. And all the big names in the progressive blogoshpere are here.īURKE: High profile Democratic leaders are arriving today in a show of support as well, including Howard Dean, Senator Harry Reid and General Wesley Clark. TANNY MARTIN: Pulling people together like this, to come out from behind their onscreen names, gives us an opportunity to put a face to the movement. Moulitsas has leveraged the popularity of his site to raise funds for progressive candidates and help build a network of bloggers.Īnd now, says Tanny Martin(ph), an avid blog reader who writes comments under the name Zen Nurse, it's time for the extended community to get together face-to-face for some old-fashioned political organizing. Among the roughly 43 million blogs worldwide, Daily Kos currently ranks number five, according to the indexing website Technorati, which tracks website use.
MARKOS MOULITSAS (Daily Kos Founder): Technology allows each and every one of us to be a leader.īURKE: Moulitsas is a talented blogger, or at least successful.
In a packed convention hall at the Riviera Hotel last night, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas reminded an assembly of bloggers and blog enthusiasts of something they probably already knew.
Adam Burke reports from Las Vegas on what happens when the bloggers actually come face-to-face. Can a bunch of Web-savvy Washington-watchers handle life outside their virtual world? It's the first attempt at a convention for the web log Daily Kos.
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