I'm always curious about how events like NN08 are covered so I poke around to see who's saying what. I thought I'd pass along some of the more interesting bits I've found. It's not an exhaustive list. Please feel free to add your finds in the comments.
So, here's a round up of news and blog coverage of Netroots Nation through about 2pm EST on Saturday. Check out the links including lots of video links below the fold.
Here's yesterday's edition.
Cross-posted at Reality Window
» Former MO Sen. Jean Carnahan is at NN08 and loved the Al Gore surprise appearance. She also likes us: "This gathering of progressive bloggers at Netroots Nation is a breath of fresh air as they deal creatively with the "democracy crisis.""
» National Journal's Hotline blog has a number of entries on what they've observed at NN08 including the OpenLeft Caucus, chats with Todd Beeton of mydd and Matt Yglesias, and summaries of Howard Dean's and Wes Clark's speeches.
» Liberal Oasis blogger Bill Scher has been a one busy person at NN08. He's done a number of interviews and uploaded all the video. Check them out. Nice job, Bill.
-- He did an interview (video) onsite at NN08 with Jim Hightower.
-- He also interviewed (3 videos) Energize America's Mark Sumner and A Siegel, and Natasha Chart of MyDD, Open Left and Pacific Views talked about how bloggers make environmental issues more accessible both inside and outside the blogosphere.
-- He interviewed Mark Begich running for Alaska's Senate seat dethroning Ted Stevens.
-- He interviewed some attendees after the Labor Caucus on Thursday (2 videos) including Jason Lefkowitz, online organizer for Change To Win, and Elana Levin from UNITE HERE and Stephanie Taylor from SEIU.
» RCP's Kyle Trygvstad did an interview with Darcy Burner. He also posts about Gov. Siegelman's appearance at NN08, Markos's and Harold Ford's noon-time matchup and Al Gore's surprise appearance with Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
» MyDD has lots of good posts about what's happening at NN08 including:
-- Todd Beeton with a piece about the Road to 60 Senate challengers at NN08
-- entrepeneur with an appeal to help write the Netroots Nation political platform online.
-- Jonathan Singer with notes on his interview with Gov. Siegelman and Siegelman's appearance at NN08
-- Todd Beeton on Thursday night's opener with Howard Dean and Gen. Clark
-- Todd made some brief notes about the lunchtime chat between Markos and Harold Ford.
» The Austin Statesman has a blog called Postcards from the Lege with a number of entries about NN08.
-- Markos did a radio show interview with KOOP FM
-- Notes on Howard Dean's rallies in Crawford and Austin
-- a picture of the sign noting that the Mom's Caucus has been moved from the assigned location to Phil's Ice House
-- a post with pictures about the Second Life panel and in which the Second Life participants outnumbered the real life participants
-- a post with video about hanging out in the Media Room waiting for Obama Girl
-- notes on Gen. Clark's keynote opener and Howard Dean's keynote address
-- Coverage of Rick Noriega's liveblog conversation in his Daily Kos diary about John Cornyn's fear of the netroots
» Sam Stein at HuffPost blogged about Markos and Harold Ford including the heckling Ford received. Included some video for you to watch if you missed it.
» WaPo's The Trail blog has a couple entries about NN08
-- Garance Franke-Ruta has a post whose title implies that the Obama campaign is not obviously present at NN08 and then proceeds to detail all the different people from the campaign who are there and what they're contributing. Sidenote: I attended a session that she moderated last year and I still can't pronounce her name properly. Good session though.
-- a post with video of Al Gore's surprise appearance with Nancy Pelosi.
» KVUE News of Austin has a background article and video about Netroots Nation along with an interview with Nate Wilcox aka Texas Nate on myDD, which talks about Nate's new book, Netroots Rising, which he co-authored with Lowell Feld of Raising Kane, aka lowkell at Daily Kos.
» The NY Times had this intro article about NN08 by Katherine Seelye who's attending the conference and also posts on NYT's The Caucus blog
» The NYT's The Caucus blog has several diverse entries on NN08.
-- a thorough post about Speaker Pelosi's Q&A session and Al Gore's surprise appearance.
-- a post on a panel about the use of profanity in blogging -- Digby's doing less. Sounds like it was interesting.
-- their post about the "debate" between Markos and Harold Ford
-- Katherine Seelye posted one about a panel that gathered to discuss "making the national popular vote the method by which Americans choose their presidents". Hendrik Hertzberg was present. Sounded like it was more of a group looking for an audience and to recruit some new blogosphere-based blood than a panel convened by bloggers from her description.
» The Dallas Morning News blogger Karen Brooks keeps up with her mostly entertaining posts about NN08 here, here, here, and here. IMO, Karen, you should have gone to the panel on media's failures and domination by the RWNM. You might have learned something. Gasp!
» The ACLU Blog of Rights contingent reports in about their experiences here and here. They have some good links including one to video of the profanity on the blogs panel
» Pandagon has the video of the profanity on the blogs panel. Looks like it's one of the more popular, er, infamous sessions thus far. Jesse Taylor also has a post up about Al Gore's surprise appearance. Amanda Marcotte has a thoughtful post about the future of lefty blogging and how it may change with a Democratic president in office based on the panel with Digby, Atrios, Rick Perlstein and Paul Krug yesterday. I watched it via ustream.tv and it was great.
» Scienceblog's Virginia Hughes talks about Thursday's highlights at NN08. Lots of good science action from her perspective.
» ReGeneration blog has a day 2 post up which includes a couple of video interviews.
» Grist blogger David Roberts does a sort-of stream-of-consciousness post on Al Gore's surprise appearance at NN08. An entertaining and informative read. There's also a post about this interview with David Roberts.
» Jason Linkins at HuffPo has a detailed post about the panel titled From Dean To Obama: Four Years In the Internet Revolution. Sounds like they had an interesting discussion.
» The AFL-CIO blog reports on NN08 activities including some of what happened at the Labor caucus on Thursday and on a Friday panel on Middle Class economics.
» thru a blue filter blog has a post up about Markos's appearance on David Gregory's show on MSNBC in case you missed it.
» The Denver Post's PoliticsWest blog has a post up with some liveblogging entries from Saturday morning's events at NN08. It's interesting to see what Stephen Keating picked out as key points to pass along.