This Week's Convention Coverage

by: odum

Sun Aug 24, 2008 at 20:13:48 PM EDT

For myself, I'll be posting one or two reports a day that will alternately focus on some of the more interesting peripheral events (there are many), as well as the Vermont delegation itself. To supplement coverage, I'll be posting roughly 3 brief video "lifecast" style posts a day viewable at the zannel.com widget atop the page. In addition, I'll be doing some blogging for the website of the UK's Guardian newspaper. They will be viewable on the Guardian op-ed page, "Comment is Free America" and will be crossposted here (I think).

JDRyan will be blogging at Five Before Chaos as well as this site - and will be doing some vlogging of his own at the VCAM site. He gives us this preview:

As far as people go,  I'm covering Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton and whatever happens inside Invesco (as well as any other speakers I happen to see). Some might be articles, some might be liveblogging, I'm not sure yet. I'm also gonna cover some of the stuff in the Big Tent, and as much as I can cover of the protests without getting in trouble. I'll also interview anyone I have access to if they're notable.

Christian Avard will also be at the convention, but will be blogging under the auspices of the Huffington Post. I suspect he'll be crossposting some of his coverage here, as well. Christian:

I'll be doing spot news stories and exclusives for Huffington Post's "Off the Bus." Expect lots of photos. I'll be covering a variety of events: Big Tent, protests, PDA conference, the press pool scene, etc. I'll also do a nightly recap of events, observations, and gossip for Green Mountain Daily, iBrattleboro, and now Docudharma!

....and of course, blogging luminary and former GMD front pager Kagro X will be on the scene for DailyKos. Kagro sez:

I really have next to no idea what I'm going to do there... My backup plan is to borrow a video camera and post some "You Are There" YouTube videos, just conveying the experience.

Most of my time will be making the rounds of traditional institutional advocacy groups, looking to build bridges on legislative analysis, which we're going to be doing a lot more of next year.

While we fully expect to inundate you with coverage, if you just can't get enough, Delegate Philip Baruth will not only be blogging at Vermont Daily Briefing, but at the Burlington Free Press website as well.

Seven Days will also have a blogger on hand, but I forget who because I'm stupid. An attempt to find out on their website (including using their search function) came up short, and I'm too tired to keep looking. Maybe somebody can let us know.

And as far as the Democrats themselves, there will be updates on their website, as well some early-week blogging from gubernatorial candidate Gaye Symington on her campaign website.

.....and there will no doubt be even more from other media outlets. If you're not sick of hearing about this stuff by now, give it - ohhh, about 24 hours. In the meantime, our intrepid GMD crew will continue to remember the other things going on in the state and the world, I'm sure.