At Large Blogging the Blogger Convention
posted by on August 3 at 9:05 AM
I’m here at YearlyKos, which, in case you’re curious, is just as white and middle aged as last year.
Popular imagination has cast online networking as the province of the under-30 MySpace generation, but the median age of a Daily Kos reader is 45. Lefty online political organizing is, in fact, a middle-aged game.
I’m sitting in a forum called “Future Leaders” right now. If you follow the local and national netroots, you won’t be surprised that eastside Democrat Darcy Burner is here.
And so is Nebraska hottie Scott Kleeb:
(For one of the iconic Kleeb photos from the last election, click here.)
Both Kleeb and Burner are netroot darlings who made their first runs for Congress in 2006, generated a lot of excitement in the blogosphere, and then lost. Both are running again. (Burner is challenging Congressman Dave Reichert in Washington’s 8th Congressional district after coming within 7,500 votes of beating him last year.) The discussion is just beginning. I’ll let you know if anything interesting happens.
I hope they tackle my Taco Bell dilemma.
That's funny-- Joel Connelly's column (filed from DailyKos) mentioned how "young" the crowd is.
Dude, someday you're going to be white and middle-aged yourself.
In the interest of fairness, who gets to cover the right-wing bloviators’ AM Radio convention?
Sounds like a job for The Stranger’s Worst Enemy™. Tee hee hee.
where are the naughty pics?
How 'bout laying off categorizing people for things that they can't change; you know, like skin color and age. If you want to comment on the crowd being older than generally believed, that's fine, but as with many such categorizations of people, tone means everything.
BTW, thanks for posting the link to the Kleeb photo. It makes up for the racism/ageism comment!
Eli
How long are you in town for? Email me if you want restaurant advice or anything like that.
Bill Savage
If I blog about your post about blogging about a blogger convention, how much further do you think the recursing could go?
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