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Well, the Year of the Blog at the DNC is getting off to a slow start. So far most of what has been posted has nothing to do with news - it's mostly touristy, delegate-like musings, discussions of the parties, drinking, celebrity-spotting, and protest-gawking. In addition to that, its taking forever for bloggers to get their posts online due to limited Net access. I figured people would do all they can to extend and access the Internet to blog more real-time. You guys need sidekicks and PocketPC phones!

Now that the convention has been gavelled to order, hopefully things will change. Despite this, I've already spotted two small things that point to some interesting changes on the political front - Electablog speaks with Oakland, CA Mayor Jerry Brown & David Weinberger's chat with Representative Henry Waxman about the difficulties of investigating the various follies of the Bush administration.

Is this a fluke of the DNC? Or will politicos realize that the way to get the real issues out to the people....will be to go directly to the peoples' voice? The people! Hopefully we'll hear more stories of this nature and our representatives in Washington will soon realize that not only are they representing us, but we can help them in the process of doing that.

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