Working to Bring Denver to Your Computer
By Tim Reese
We have been busy getting ready for Denver. I leave Saturday by plane. Calvin will be coming up by car and we have been busy preparing for a hectic week.
Most of our readers know that we have opened temporary shop here at DenverOkie.com. This site will be dedicated to convention coverage because the software that the page operates on is more friendly with other bloggers across the nation. Lively discussion will still happen at good old DemoOkie.com. Readers will still get the regularly scheduled emails like normal, however during convention week we will be putting out the email daily, or so we hope.
DemoOkie joined with 57 other “State Bloggers”. I guess the DNC has granted statehood to Puerto Rico and American Samoa”. It started with Yanque Mike, from Argentina. He will be blogging for the Americans Abroad. Using the internet, Mike researched contact information and reached out to bloggers from across America (including territories and possessions). I called Mike and had a great chat with him. He used the internet to make the phone call. Man the world is getting smaller.
From there our friend Steve from Wisconsin, who is infinitely well versed in internet stuff put together a media aggregator. What’s that you ask. It’s a web page that goes out and reads all of the web pages and puts posts such as these in one central location. The results can be seen in the far right column of this page or you can visit www.rootswire.org to visit over 30 states blog entries. DemoOkie will also share it’s stories and pictures with local Oklahoma media outlets.
We also joined the “Big Tent” which includes the national blogs such as DailyKos. For a complete list Click Here. I can assure you the free food and beer had nothing to do with it.
So Here’s the Plan
If you want Gavel to Gavel, watch the news. It will be better than we can do. However, since we are embedded with the Oklahoma Delegation, we will be with them all day. You will get to meet them and see what really happens at these conventions. Delegates usually start with a breakfast at 7:30 am and continue until late night. I know when I went to Boston I was exhausted when I came back. You’ll go with them to receptions, caucuses and just hanging around.
We’ve brought digital cameras, digital videos and digital audio recorders. We plan on making a few of the attendees YouTube stars. Dr. Earl Mitchell from Stillwater has been drafted again as a special correspondent. We also will be sharing photos taken by the delegates themselves.
Hopefully we will fulfill Howard Deans vision of bringing the other parts of the convention home. We look forward to the opportunity.
