I jumped into Goldy’s Volvo earlier today and rode out to Microsoft’s campus in Redmond with Jerome Armstrong, the creator of MyDD and a co-author of Crashing the Gate, a new book on how bloggers are changing liberal politics. (Read my review here.)

In Redmond, we met up with Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, the other co-author of Crashing the Gate (and the force behind DailyKos), and now we’re in a small hall at Microsoft headquarters, listening as the bloggers lecture the techies on the future of politics in the age of the Internet.

I’m not allowed to write about what’s being said because this session is “off the record.” But I can tell you all about the Brave New World-ish scene that’s unfolding. The two bloggers (pictures here) are hooked up to microphones and are being watched by a video camera that’s broadcasting this session live to anyone inside the Microsoft Corporation who wants to watch. There are probably twice as many Microsoft employees watching this right now at their desks (desks in China, Redmond, and elsewhere, by the way) as there are people listening in this room right now.

In the front row is blogging celebrity Robert Scoble, who writes the tech blog Scobleizer—one of the most highly-trafficked tech blogs there is, I’m told. The rest of the seats are filled with geeks taking notes on fancy laptops, many of them with screens that spin and contort so that a laptop becomes a writing tablet. The vibe… basically a liberal nerd love-in.

On the way back, I’m going to try to do a digital-audio interview with Markos (who flew into Seattle this morning after being in New York for an appearance on the Colbert Report last night). It may take a day or two to get the interview up online, but I’ll do another post when it’s ready.

For information on the political bloggers’ appearance tonight in Seattle, click here.