Conventioneering.com
Es conocida la importancia que tiene en la política norteamericana las convenciones tanto demócratas como republicanas, mas aún si se trata de las que tienen como objeto lanzar la candidatura de la fórmula presidencial. Los Bloggers no podían quedarse atrás en esto. Beyond its power as a source of news and commentary, the Internet has proved itself to be the ultimate fund-raising tool. Bloggers can be crass and biased, but politicians no longer scoff at their rich online realm. Hence the red carpet at the conventions — at least for some of them.

El NYT informa que para la convención demócrata se recibieron 50 solicitudes de bloggers, anunciando luego los organizadores que sólo habia cupo para 30, lo cual desató rumores de conspiración. Such is Web life. We do wonder whether a blogger's buccaneer self-image will suffer from having to wear a garish credential necklace just to watch conventioneers as they mainly say, "Nice to see you!" to each other. Will bloggers be tamed into centrism? Or, like Mencken, will they gleefully report that the convention's main speechmakers are "plainly on furlough from some home for extinct volcanoes"? Log on to find out.
- posted by Juan Arellano @ viernes, julio 16, 2004