Adam Curry's Weblog

Dave and I had a similar idea a few weeks ago for a centralized aggregator of weblogs covering the Democratic National Convention.

His implementation however, is so superb that I want to redirect everyone using my DNC RSS Feed to ConventionBloggers.com The single source for keeping track of all blogging of the DNC (Not just the bloggers with credentials)

There's also an opml file of the current list of blogs being aggregated so you can import all the subscriptions if your aggregator supports this. I'm modifying my aggregator so that it will subscribe to the opml, which in turn will manage my DNC subscriptions automatically. When a new blog is added, it automatically becomes a subscription in my aggregator. If I want to unsubscribe from all the DNC feeds, I just unsuscribe from the opml feed. Sweet stuff.

8:08:37 AM

Swing States and TV Advertising. Cross-posted from the Swing State Project. Kerry has just taken the lead over Bush in... [MyDD]
7:02:05 AM

The Edwards Bounce Kicks in. It's here: John Kerry is getting a boost from his selection of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards as his running mate, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows. The Democratic ticket now leads President Bush and Vice President Cheney 50% to 45%... [Burnt Orange Report]
6:54:53 AM

Convention Coverage, another view. In Convention Coverage is a Failed Regime and Bloggers Have Their Credentials, Jay Rosen writes: As far as I know, no one has a convincing notion of what a political convention is , anymore, or why 15,000 people are there to cover it.

He goes on to talk about the convention as either a news event or a media event. This feeds into the discussion going on about how journalistic the bloggers will or should be.

Kos writes: For Jerome and me, this will be our second convention coverage, as the California Democratic Party took the risk of giving us both creds for their 2003 convention . . . Jerome talks about our experience here, including links to our coverage of the event

The first convention I went to was the nominating convention for Diane Farrell.

The second convention I attended was for my wife, Kim Hynes. It had all the weight and significance of a First Communion.

Democracy is too important to be left to elite cronies. It requires the participation of all Americans, and bloggers are a great example of average Americans getting involved in the discourse. [Greater Democracy]
4:32:38 AM

Who Knew?.

You just knew they'd roll out a Reagan for the Convention.

You just didn't know it'd be ours.

[Pandagon]
6:53:25 AM

Yes On Terrorism, No On Elections?.

Joe says it all.

[Pandagon]
6:41:22 AM

Convention Coverage, another view. In Convention Coverage is a Failed Regime and Bloggers Have Their Credentials, Jay Rosen writes: As far as I know, no one has a convincing notion of what a political convention is , anymore, or why 15,000 people are there to cover it.

He goes on to talk about the convention as either a news event or a media event. This feeds into the discussion going on about how journalistic the bloggers will or should be.

Kos writes: For Jerome and me, this will be our second convention coverage, as the California Democratic Party took the risk of giving us both creds for their 2003 convention . . . Jerome talks about our experience here, including links to our coverage of the event

The first convention I went to was the nominating convention for Diane Farrell.

The second convention I attended was for my wife, Kim Hynes. It had all the weight and significance of a First Communion.

Democracy is too important to be left to elite cronies. It requires the participation of all Americans, and bloggers are a great example of average Americans getting involved in the discourse. [Greater Democracy]
6:39:27 AM

Should President Have Emergency Power to Delay Election?. by TChris Tom Ridge says terrorists may try to disrupt the presidential election -- a claim based on old information, according to Rep. Jane Harman, a member of the House Intelligence Committee -- and now the Bush administration would like... [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]
4:32:49 AM

librarians for kerry-edwards.

I would be remiss at this juncture if I did not mention the Librarians for Kerry-Edwards Yahoo group that has been picking up steam lately. In the interests of full disclosure I'd like to say that while the Kerry-Edwards ticket has my support, Kucinich or Dean were really who I was rallying for. I've embraced national level voting for tactical reasons lately. [thanks kathleen]

[librarian.net : a library weblog]
4:29:45 AM

hi - 11jul.

Hi. I hear that there are six "lady bloggers" at the DNC but like much else at this point, it's just so much hearsay. I plan to use this opportunity to, among other things, answer "reference" questions about the whole event in case anyone is interested. I'm overwhelmed even thinking about it, so back to the daily parade of links.

[librarian.net : a library weblog]
4:27:21 AM

Building the Democratic Party. Rick Perlstein has an excellent piece that covers why the Democratic party has got to get back to building reasons for people to define themselves Democrats. In it he compares the image problems that the Democrats have to the problems... [Pacific Views]
4:22:41 AM

When I read that some of my favourite bloggers will be covering the democratic convention, an idea popped into my head. It would probably benefit lots of people if they can subscribe to a single feed that is an aggregation of the DNC blogger's postings.

This would give readers a single click sub and unsub action and perhaps triangulation as the events on the floor unfold.

But I'm not quite sure how to approach the project. No sense building a new aggregator, plenty of useful bits to work with. I'm considering the manila aggregator API, polling the selected feeds hourly and bulding a new rss feed on the fly of the result.

Then again, a human edited feed, organized and updated on the fly feels like a better solution and adds value to the information flow by grouping postings and information. So I've started the DNC RSS Feed for your aggregating enjoyment!

9:04:32 PM

Welcome to the DNC RSS Feed!

8:53:26 PM

I'm Going To Boston!. God willing. Creeks don't rise. Etc. That distant, fuzzy shout you heard a few minutes ago was me on finding out that I'm really, truly, on the list to get media credentials for the Democratic National Convention. Wow. A big... [Pacific Views]
8:42:26 PM