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This is it. I’m not sure if I’ll be back tomorrow, but this has been incredible so far. Thanks for the readership. Make sure that if you are in the area, come to the free Day 2 activities. Thanks, Dave, for putting this all together.

Jim Moore: The Democratic Party needs to be more about Democracy. The idea of having the candidates blog is tied in an old idea of the President as a father. The Republicans are about the strict father, the Democrats are about the nurturant parent, and today people don’t want either. I want a platform on [...]

Dave: Will the Republicans blog? Will George Bush make use of blogs? Matt: His message is already spinning out of control, he doesn’t need additional randomization. Eric: In 2000 the Republicans were really good about pumping out stuff to the fan base. They were way ahead of us. We’re writing to our base. Dave: [...]

Weblogs in Presidential Politics. Dave moderates, Eric Folley (DNC), Joe Jones (Graham), Mathew Gross (Dean), Cameron Barrett (Clark).
Eric: The vetting process is emailing to a list. Only legal can veto if we’re breaking a law. And either Communications or Research has to approve, since they’re the fact checkers.
Cam:
Matt: We’re doing 2200 comments a [...]

Aggregated blog postings from the participants at LocalFeeds and Feedster.

Question: Human nature… human nature seeks facts that support your point of view. That speaks against truth.
Dave: Let’s take it as read that it doesn’t change human nature. But what if it allows an older human nature to come out? We used to sing songs around campfires and didn’t worry about being perfect. Why [...]

Peter Winer: Can I ask a disruptive question? How do we get people to stop watching TV and start reading blogs? —TV usage is dropping, broadband users drop like crazy. Adam: People are getting tired of the dishonesty, of being hypnotized by television. Chris: You can blog and have the television on at the same [...]

There’s a killer backchannel on the IRC, #bloggercon:
RossR (2:48:47PM): kevin: yes, but that’s a luxury that we have now because the s/n ratio is still good…
KevinMarks (2:49:01PM): no, there is a lot fo noise
RossR (2:49:01PM): …it won’t be always.
KevinMarks (2:49:06PM): but we pick what is signal
KevinMarks (2:49:20PM): there are 1,000,000 blogs
KevinMarks (2:49:23PM): at least
dsifry-afb (2:49:27PM): [...]

Chris Lydon with Adam Curry, Doc Searls, Dave Weinberger, Elizabeth Spiers, Jim Moore. Chris: How is the transformation proceeding?
Doc: The revolution started with the personal computer and is continuing. Look at RSS-Data, I was talking with Jeremy Allaire on the web.
Adam: I see weblogs a little differently, they’re just a tool. We use them like [...]

Scott Rosenberg of Salon, moderating with Len Apcar from the New York Times and James Taranto from the Wall Street Journal.
James: Best of the Web is a column in blog form. Not a blog—published on a schedule rather than at will. Loosely edited. Not monetized.
Len: We’re thinking about blogging. We haven’t really done anything like [...]

Glenn asks about making this available for other people. What about other countries? Another asks about inclusion vs. exclusion–minorities, inner cities. Jenny suggests libraries, despite disparity in funding, might be the right way to go.
Side note: Cool article about BloggerCon attendee posting habits; thanks Lisa for the link.
Side note #2: If you’re interested, join [...]

Worlds spill over, says Lance. Education is broad and encompasses a lot. Panelists: Pat Delaney, AKM Adam, Brian Weatherson, Kaye Trammel, Jenny Levine.
Pat: Pitching writing blogs to teachers: busy and don’t do anything that doesn’t make their work better. He calls it “digital paper”: blogs help enable reading, writing, and researching much easier. Is [...]

In the spirit of “everything on the record,” here are some quick discussions from the break:
Phil Wolff is really cool. I think I’m going to have to get with him to crunch some of his data–he’s getting definitive lists of blogs from some of the crawling services. He says Dave Sifry doesn’t want to give [...]

Dave: Is there a conflict of interest between the presidential candidate and the media? Yes. Is there visibility? No. How do you draw the line?
Dan: Not a single line. It’s like with any institution. I work for them… For blogging, transparency is more about exposing how I do the blog than exposing the institution. You [...]

My network connection has been up and down here for a while. I’m going to post my notes now and add links later.
From the Blogs in Journalism panel:

Ed Cone: to my left, physically, is Glenn Reynolds, the dirk diggler of hit count
Scott Rosenberg, who has been in this business long enough that he has options [...]