Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

It looks like quite a few bloggers affiliated with our group will be doing some citizen journalism at the Democratic National Convention.

• the Dowbrigade, aka Michael Feldman
• Rick Heller
• David Weinberger
• Dave Winer

Vernica pointed out that political science graduate student Nate Paxton of Nate Knows Nada also has credentials. He blogs on Harvard’s server. (Thanks!)

Congratulations, bloggers!

Journalism professor Jay Rosen wrote a long piece about blogging the convention and bloggers getting their credentials.

Cyberjournalist is listing bloggers with credentials.

Dave Winer has set up a community site for blogging the DNC.

Adam Curry has a feed of bloggers covering the DNC.

Jessamyn West of librarian.net has a list of links to resources about Boston during the DNC, like MBTA information and where to find some wireless access on her blog for the DNC.

If anyone coming to the area would like to meet up with us while s/he’s in town, drop us a line. We plan to meet as usual on Thursday, July 29, conflicting with convention activities.

Addendum 7/19: Alex S. Jones of the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has a negative perspective on bloggers covering the convention. He writes, “But make no mistake, this moment of blogging legitimization — and temporary press credentials — doesn’t turn bloggers into journalists. … bloggers, with few exceptions, don’t add reporting to the personal views they post online, and they see journalism as bound by norms and standards that they reject. That encourages these common attributes of the blogosphere: vulgarity, scorching insults, bitter denunciations, one-sided arguments, erroneous assertions and the array of qualities that might be expected from a blustering know-it-all in a bar. … With the status conferred by convention credentials, blogging has arrived as an engaging, important new player in the information carnival. But should blogging displace traditional reporting and journalism, as some in the blogosphere predict it will, then the steak will have been swapped for the sizzle. It’s better to have both.” He does say some positive things about bloggers covering the convention. He recognizes that many people, journalists included, read blogs and consider them an important news source.

Addendum 7/22: Feedster has a feed for the Democratic National Convention.

Addendum 7/26: Here’s another list of bloggers covering the convention, including delegates who are blogging.