Here's another roundup of Netroot Nation 2008 coverage in the media and on the blogs. There will be a special Daily Kos edition soon along with a final roundup edition when I can get them pulled together.
Check out the previous NN08 roundups: #1 #2
Crossposted at Reality Window
» Spencer Ackerman did a liveblog of the session on media coverage of the Iraq War with Samantha Power, Greg Mitchell, Mark Danner, and McJoan (Joan Carter).
» The Washington Post has a NN08 wrap-up article on what they think the significance of the netroots will be going forward. I don't think they quite get the blogosphere yet hence their conclusions aren't really worth the paper they're printed on (or the electrons) but someone will quote them so go read up.
» WaPo's The Trail blog has several more NN08 posts.
-- I found this post about the straw poll of bloggers most interesting.
-- an extended post about Al Gore's appearance including embedded youtube clips of Al's talk in case you haven't seen it yet. I watched on ustream.tv and it was good.
-- from Garance Franke-Ruta, a post on NN08's second surprise visitor, Bob Barr
» News8 Austin has a video clip (youtube) of Rick Noriega, H/T scarce
» The Austin Statesman outdid itself in rudeness in this article which is only available by Google cache now. Evidently they got a little feedback, which prompted this apology from the Editor. Yeah, that article really didn't work.
» The Austin Chronicle ensured that not all the Austin news coverage was bad with a number of articles.
-- Wells Dunbar wrote a great intro to the left blogosphere for non-blog people in this article, Building the Netroots Nation
-- a writeup on what Lawrence Lessig and Karl Frisch had to say.
-- an interview with filmmaker Alex Gibney who appeared at NN08
-- a thumbnail description of how NN08 came to be
-- a pre-conference review of progressive blogs -- interesting selection by the author. Probably not the ones someone from the dkos / TPM / mydd circle would have chosen. Though this post of The Blogosphere Branches Out lists some of the more usual suspects in its "harvest of the best liberal and progressive reads online".
-- And finally, a major H/T to anotherdemocrat for the links on the Austin Chronicle
» HuffPost's coverage of Al Gore's surprise appearance during Nancy Pelosi's session includes a selection of the Tweets aka Twitter posts that happened while they were on.
» MyDD's Jonathan Singer did a BlogTalkRadio segment at NN08.
» Dave Nalle of BlogCritic and The Republic of Dave had two more posts on NN08 which he posted in both locations. The first one dealt with his "outing" in NN08 Roundup #2 and the second was a lengthy report of his experiences at NN08 versus the right-wing bloggers gathering. Seems the Rude Pundit visited them and caused a ruckus. Also some other lefty bloggers got in and did some video but he hasn't seen it yet on the net.
» NPR Morning Edition story courtesy of st minutia
» Ari Melber at Democracy Arsenal did a very short straight up summary of Gore's appearance at NN08.
» The NPI (Northwest Progressive Institute) Advocate blog has a series of posts from different NPI bloggers up about NN08. Great coverage if you didn't make it to these sessions or missed NN altogether.
-- a take on Friday night's party scene in Austin
-- a great liveblog post on the Ask the Speaker session with Nancy Pelosi
-- a detailed post on Al Gore's surprise appearance along with details about the audience interaction
-- a short report on the Working Outside the Box panel
-- a writeup from a couple different people on Lawrence Lessig's powerful keynote address
-- a post on Gina Cooper's appearance noting that she is stepping down as director of NN08 plus the announcement of next year's NN in Pittsburgh and finally, a snippet indicating that the graduated increase of registrations will no longer be tied to a date. They've set aside so many at each level starting at $175, and when they're gone, it will go to the next level. Good things to know for those of us who weren't there.
-- a summary of what Donna Edwards had to say to all of the NN08 attendees
-- a quick note on Gavin Newsome's intro to Van Jones which is covered in a lengthier post.
-- thoughts from the bloggers brunch on the final day of NN08
» KVUE TV has a short writeup on Pelosi and Gore's appearance at NN08
» Time Magazine pushes a distorted view of Pelosi's reception at NN08 in this article about Pelosi and Gore's appearance.
» WSJ's Washington Wire blog had several more posts about NN08
-- they noted Bob Barr's surprise appearance
-- did some snarking at Lawrence Lessig's appearance in this one
-- reported on Gore's appearance an NN08 though they managed to avoid including a lot of detail about what he actually discussed.
-- somehow they were able to measure the lack of Dem party unity at NN08 through the dynamics of Markos's session with Harold Ford.
» National Journal's Hotline people posted the required posts on Markos vs. Harold Ford, Al Gore's surprise visit, and a collection of quotes from various speakers at NN08.
» The Seminal has a post by Jason Rosenbaum, one of the speakers at the "Marketing and Monetizing Your Progressive Blog" and "Using Social Networks to Grow Your Blog's Community" that includes links and embeds of the slides used by various panelists at those two sessions. Probably not quite as good as being there but all the material will give you a good idea of what they talked about.
Jason and the Seminal also posted video of an interview they did with dkos regular Melody Townsel and the story of her battle with her insurance company who sought to deny her then 2-year-old daughter coverage on the grounds that she'd attempted suicide. Melody, I always knew that dkos was graced by your presence. This just confirms it.
» AfterDowningStreet provides the far-left view of Nancy Pelosi's session in this post. It's what you would expect and includes this question: "How long will the centrist bureaucrats of Netroots Nation and groups like MoveOn roll-over for lowest common denominator Democrats and Barack Obama?" Centrist bureaucrats of Netroots Nation? Yeah, well, moving on.
» The San Francisco Chronicle Politics blog's Joe Garofoli had a number of posts on NN08 including
-- the mandatory post on Al Gore's surprise appearance.
-- a bit on Wes Clark's speech including his reference to the right wing freak machine.
-- a lengthy post on why Gavin Newsom was at NN08. This one's worth reading if for nothing else than the pat on the back you can all give yourselves after you read what he says about interacting with the netroots. And, BiPM aka Bill in Portland Maine, Gavin Newsom knows who you are.
» The SF Chronicle also ran a straight news article by Joe Garofali on NN08 and how it's evolved with a nice timeline at the end marking key milestones.
» The NY Times reported on Al Gore's appearance with Nancy Pelosi at NN08. What was more interesting was their link to an annotated version of Al Gore's 7-17 Energy speech updated with notes on both candidates' reactions to the speech and a hat-tip to what Gore said at NN08.
» The Houston Chronicle had a couple reporters at NN08 who filed a report that somehow gave parity to NN08 and that other blogger gathering under a title that referenced Al Gore's appearance. You'll "love" the quotes from WSJ staffer Steve Moore and Grover Norquist. As Wes put it, the Right Wing Freak Show was freaking out.
» GoldnI at Silence isn't Golden blog has put up video of Markos and Harold Ford's session minus the Q&A part. It seems GoldnI is a former Ford intern and had an important question for him that she didn't get to ask during the Q&A but did get to ask later. You'll have to read the blog to find out what it is and how he answered. Other posts about NN08: a view of the Jewish Caucus and pics with Markos.
» TPMtv caught up with Gavin Newsom after his intro of Van Jones and did this interview.
» The People's Weekly World has a post about NN08 that is remarkable only in how it brings together disparate elements and ties them together in a narrative that doesn't really resemble what happened at NN08.
» HuffPost's Justin Hamilton makes a valid point that reflects how I felt about YK07: "The sheer number of topics and panels each day was breathtaking: around 40-50 different subjects were discussed for somewhere between 45 minutes to an hour a piece. Just enough time to give people a brush stroke look at a topic, not enough time to get substantive."
» Pensacola Beach blog monitored the NN08 proceedings from the comfort of home. Link courtesy of panicbean