There will be two applicant groups. One for bloggers that cover a specific state's politics and one for national and "niche" bloggers, and state bloggers who didn't make the cut from the state group. As part of Dean's "50 state plan" one blogger from each state and the six territories will get credentials. They don't know how many national, niche and other blogs will be credentialed, but it won't be all of them.

Applications can be submitted on December 10, details are here.

Your blog must be at least six months old. Among the factors they will consider: the number of political posts you have written, praise for your blogging and your "technorati ranking."

As for internet access: Wi-Fi is not great at these events because of the amount of "RF"s caused by the Secret Service being in attendance. Not only is there interference but for security reasons, sometimes they shut it down entirely when a major person is arriving or speaking.

They will hard-wire most of the arena but they recommend you bring a mobile phone with blogging capacity. They are in the process of making offers to AT&T and Verizon and perhaps others to come in and strengthen the signals. If you have "mission critical" stuff to get up, like video or photos, your best bet is either wired or mobile blogging.

I asked if we were going to be in the nosebleed seats like in Boston, and whether we would have tables or desks to put our laptops on, as it was difficult in Boston trying to type with a laptop in your lap. They said they'd consider it.

They really are making an effort to accommodate bloggers. They've even hired a full time person, Jason Rosenberg (a co-founder of Politics TV), to oversee "new media" which includes bloggers and others like online newspapers that don't have a paper version.

Progress Now Action is located just a few blocks from the Pepsi Center and will be opening up their offices to bloggers who either don't get credentialed or who just want to take a break and blog from there. They are calling in ProgCon. It sounds like it will function somewhat like the Tank, where liberal bloggers gathered to blog the New York Republican convention.