Events

March is an insane month for the amount of political events you can go to. The proof is in the amount of political heavy hitters DL21C was able to wrangle during that month : Jon Kerry, Wesley Clark, John Tester, John Edwards, Bill Richardson. It is also an insane month for the amount of technology and media conferences you can get invited to, the most important (at least for me) being SXSW --but there's eTech and IDPI as well.

I missed almost all the events involving presidential candidates because of the amount of conferences I was involved in during the month of March. Once I was done with my last one, ARC's national conference on "Facing Race", I was free to enjoy a candidate or two by the end of the month. I wasn't able to make it to the John Edwards event (I was having some fun at a party with Nancy Pelosi).

So 3/26 was Bill Richardson's lucky number.

The week started in Philadelphia on Saturday. I went to the launch of Impeach For Change at, of all places, Constitution Hall. I was there to discuss with other bloggers the importance of keeping the matter of George Bush's impeachment on the table. Not for political vendetta but as a matter of constitutional crisis.

Then on Tuesday on to Barnard College, where with 5 other feminist bloggers we discussed the state of the feminist blogosphere and what opportunities and obstacles lie ahead.

Hours later I hopped on a train to go down to Washington DC. I was slated to give a workshop on blogging with Chris Rabb of Afro-netizen, Bill Densmore of Media Giraffe and Faiz Shakir of Think Progress. I swear, an hour and a half is just not enough for tackling all the questions of concerned of people who want to use new media tools like blogs but just don't know how.

Let's say I am DYING to follow up on all these conference. Give me until tomorrow. I'm running out to pick up my kids at school. Also, the week is not over yet. I still have Rootscamp to attend.

Hola culturekitchenettes, it's the blogdiva reporting live from New York City's only urban country club -- complete with crack head caddies -- the Partk Avenue Country Club. Grock! How I hate that name.

I am here thanks to the coordinating efforts of New American Majority, Drinking LIberally, Democracy for New York, DL21C and other grassroots organizations working here in the city for either the Democratic or Working Families parties. Anybody that's anybody in the political grassroots movement here in New York City is here, waiting and cheering (or booing) as the results come in.

Here's a little podcast I've tried to extrude from the manic noise enveloping the place. Just wanted to give a little taste of what's happening here.

I expect you to appear at NYU Law, wearing your cheerleading uniforms and carrying your puffiest of pom-poms so you can cheer your fearless leader and blogdiva extraordinaire.

While you're at it, you can boo off the stage my evil rivals,

Scott Sala, Urban Elephants

Gur Tsabar Room Eight

Ben Smith Daily Politics and Room Eight

The event?
DL21C Presents : Blogs and Politics
October 25th at 7pm

Top tier New York Bloggers will be on hand to discuss new media in New York politics and analyze the result of the DL21C Blog Straw Poll.

New York University's Law School
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 210

co-hosted by the NYU Law School Democrats.

Link to survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=362362674986

RSVP http://www.dl21c.org/insertform2.php?event_id=159

Yesterday I attended Fair Media Council's "Connections Day". I was one of the participants in the Blogging: The Power of Citizen Journalism panel.

I had a blast because I finally met Bob Cox, founder of the Media Bloggers Association and Steve Safran of Lost Remote. Bob is the patron saint of bloggers and Steve? Well, as you can see by his energy in this post, he's Bob's so-good-yet-evil twin.

As Steve points out, the debate was rather agitated and it went from, how can blogs be used by disseminate your message to the "we still own the media and you bloggers suck" debate. The three of us agreed we are in a transitional period at the moment, because the rules of engagement through reading and writing are changing.

Here's what I get from the discussions we had during the panel and afterwards:

Blogs and Politics
7pm October 25th
NYU Vanderbilt Hall
7:00pm to 9:00pm

co-hosted by the NYU Law School Democrats.

Top tier New York Bloggers will be on hand to discuss new media in New York politics and analyze the result of the DL21C Blog Straw Poll.

Link to survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=362362674986

RSVP http://www.dl21c.org/insertform2.php?event_id=159