Monthly Archives: July 2004

(This story was written last night but we couldn’t post it because of fading wi-fi and near terminal exhaustion) You know you’ve reached the big time in American Journalism when Jerry Springer comes to call. The talk-show-host turned politician just … Continue reading →

Howard Dean has the floor now. Up on the big stage, he is much less open and authentic than when he spoke with the Bloggers yesterday morning. Big surprize. Still, you can feel the warmth of his reception in the … Continue reading →

Tonight we took the shuttle bus from Coply Plaza to the Fleet Center.   It was eerie being the only vehicle on the recently completed Big Dig I-95 extension, shooting us under the center of the city directly to the … Continue reading →

If knowing how to waste millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money is a prerequisite for governing this great country in this day and age, the Democratic Party is demonstrating that they are highly qualified to take the reins of power. … Continue reading →

It is somewhat overwhelming being a part of the Blogging Contingent which is expected to save Convention coverage from the morass of insignificance and self-serving shucksterism into which it has fallen during the past few decades. Hell,up until a couple … Continue reading →

After some technical problems with the Wi-Fi address we are now online, live and direct from the floor of the Democratic National Convention. The photo above was taken this afternoon, from the small stage within the Steel Cage designated as … Continue reading →

The bloggers who have worked their fingers to the bone to get here and understandably miffed that with the current cachet surrounding Blogging everybody and his buddy has a blog up and running. At the Blogger;s Bunch this morning we … Continue reading →

This morning at the fashionably late hour of 10 am, in the Fenway suite of the Hilton, we attended the Blogger’s Brunch, an official welcome on the part of some of the party joes who are in charge of keeping … Continue reading →

There was a feeling of festivities in the streets of Boston as we walked across Copley Square to pick up our credentials at the Westin Hotel. Like New Year Eve’s Day, when people are packing in supplies for parties, and … Continue reading →

Together with fellow blogging stalwarts Dave Winer and Rick Heller we have breached the security of the Fleet Center and taken our designated spots among the journalistic hoi poloi covering the Convention. Our seats are in the nosebleed section, 319 … Continue reading →

Every night, after the sun goes down and an army of tired office workers and business people leave downtown Boston in a mass exodus to the nearby towns and suburbs, another army invades the center of the city. Thousands upon … Continue reading →

“Use this value-laden word: “Halliburton.” All speakers should say Halliburton no less than six times.” from Op-Ed piece in Boston Globe