Okay, yes, I know you've got a link to them --- all 6 or 7. I mean --- where's the info?
Maybe that's not your job. You're all out to network and have friends with a bunch of other bloggers. But when I hear you're all carrying notebook pcs around, I've got to wonder what you're doing with them.
Let me lay out where I'm coming from.
I'm a Clarkaholic. That means pretty much every day I go to technorati and find out if anybody has been posting about Clark.
I figured Yearly Kos was going to give me a bonanza. With 1,000+ bloggers, most of whom probably saw Clark either at the reception, his Hard Rock party, or his Science panel, there were bound to be multiple reports. Sure, some of them might just be celebrity sightings, but some would get down to what he was saying and what people were thinking about that.
By Friday evening I had only found one substantive blogging of his science panel and one okay blog of his speech at the party, and one or two other brief mentions of what he had to say.
Otherwise, there was a notice of a video interview, a couple fleeting mentions, and one troll blog from some guy claiming he was there "undercover" who sneered at "the Butcher of Kosovo's" ghastly appearance under the lights at Hard Rock.
I also found about five posts from bloggers at the Texas Convention, which had only wrapped up a few hours before. Three of them, I think, covered the substantive details of Clark's speech. These bloggers at the Texas Democratic Convention were raving about how they'd been given a table up front.
How many tables did they give bloggers at Yearly Kos?
Come on, guys.
It's not just Wesley Clark who's getting slighted here. I tried the keyword "yearly kos" and where's a discussion of Richardson's energy panel? Where's the education panel with --- who was it --- Vilsack? Warner?
You've got major presidential candidates-to-be there. You have an opportunity to compare and contrast their messages.
You've got other important political players to learn from and evaluate, as well.
Why aren't you sharing? I've seen more writing by journalists on Yearly Kos than I've seen by bloggers. And most of what bloggers are saying centers on namedropping.
Come on, guys. I don't want you to fall to the low standard we see among journalists. Just because people are acknowledging you as players doesn't mean you have to ACT like players