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Yearly Kos in the New York Times

The blogging cool kidz will be in Vegas the weekend of June 9 attending the first Yearly Kos convention. So will many Democratic party leaders. The Sunday New York Times Magazine gives it a big shout-out.

Next week, 1,000 devotees of the liberal blogging universe -- people who know one another only as pseudonyms on a screen, connected by only their running commentaries -- will descend on the Riviera Hotel in hopes of affixing names and faces to their online personas.

And so it's not surprising that Democratic luminaries like the party's chairman, Howard Dean, and its leaders in Congress, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, have arranged their schedules to address the convention, along with at least a few 2008 presidential contenders. No small contingent of political professionals and journalists will show up as well.

I'll miss it as I have court that Friday and will be in Aspen the weekend before and D.C. the weekend after, which is more traveling than I prefer these days. But I imagine there will be live-bloggers galore to keep us all informed. And I'll be reading them.

If you don't think this is serious stuff, check out the current agenda and the list of Exhibitors.

This is the mojo that can take back our country. Friendships and strategic alliances will be made. Knowledge will be shared. The energy will be electric. Some will get the bug to run for office themselves.

Conventions of yester-year were places you went once a year to catch up with people you had something in common with and get invigorated, but usually the follow-up was missing. Once back home, the reality of daily life set back in and only a few could sustain frequent and meaningful communication. The Internet has changed all that. The networking that will take place at Yearly Kos won't end on Sunday with the closing event. Through e-mail and blogs, these net roots'ers will multiply their effectiveness and spread the message ten-fold when they return home.

The politicians are wise to re-arrange their schedules. It's really about faith. For showing faith in the net roots, they will be rewarded -- with campaign volunteers and organizers and voters in the next election.

Yearly Kos is a win-win for progressives everywhere. The Republicans have nothing like it. Not only couldn't Karl Rove, Jerry Falwell and ten Justice Sundays pull this off, they won't be able to catch up.

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    Re: Yearly Kos in the New York Times (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun May 28, 2006 at 07:21:02 AM EST
    "It's really about faith." Oh how sad is this.

    Re: Yearly Kos in the New York Times (none / 0) (#2)
    by squeaky on Sun May 28, 2006 at 08:06:57 AM EST
    Oh how sad is this.
    The opposition is crying uncle already? Netroots 1, Wingnuts 0

    Re: Yearly Kos in the New York Times (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun May 28, 2006 at 09:08:32 AM EST
    This is only the beginning of the citizen's, those are the people who actually do something instead of whine, movement to take our government back from the corrupt, cynical slime of the Bushistas.

    Re: Yearly Kos in the New York Times (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun May 28, 2006 at 12:08:11 PM EST
    Muddy:
    Oh how sad is this.
    I asssume this is satire, right?

    Re: Yearly Kos in the New York Times (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun May 28, 2006 at 12:54:39 PM EST
    talkleft, we will be there, it's just too bad you won't be able to make it. we promise you, someday we will meet you face to face, to thank you for all the support you've given our blog over the last half-a-decade.

    Re: Yearly Kos in the New York Times (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue May 30, 2006 at 12:35:34 PM EST
    So sorry we won't get to meet you in Vegas, and so sorry you'll miss it. I'd love to say thanks in person!