Watch Netroots Nation From Your Computer

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Posted on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 05:35:21 PM EST
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If you didn't make it to Netroots Nation this year, you can watch many of the events live, beginning tomorrow. The agenda is here.

You can watch all of the action (or at least all of our keynotes and panels) at netrootsnation.org, courtesy of ustream.tv.
The wonderful crew at 5 Steps Forward Media will film all Friday, Saturday and Sunday sessions happening in Exhibit Hall 4, Ballroom E, Ballroom F, Room 12, Ballroom G, and Room 12. We'll be building and promoting a fully-searchable video archive in the weeks following the convention.

One not to miss: Air America's Sam Seder interviewing former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, who is in Austin (with permission of the Court as he is out on an appeal bond.) The live stream link is here, you have to send them your e-mail address and they'll send you back the show link with a password. [More...]

There should be a lot of mainstream press articles on the event:

More than 200 reporters from outlets across the country are in attendance, including the New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, Newsweek, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, Sirius and C-SPAN (check your local listings for times).

Photos from the convention here.

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Um (5.00 / 2) (#3)
by Valhalla on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 06:24:42 PM EST

Markos Moulitas, Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi?

I'll give that a big ole pass.

But Jeralyn it's great of you to pass the info along (not snarking). Thanks.

What!!! (none / 0) (#4)
by talex26 on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 06:38:35 PM EST

No Keynote Speech from Obama? This does appear to be an Obama Love Fest after all.

And he does not even have the excuse that he will be out of country until next week. Oh well - another finger in the eye to the netroots.


Stop your insults (5.00 / 0) (#5)
by Jeralyn on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 06:41:51 PM EST

to Obama, they have gotten beyond tiresome and this one is a personal attack. Netroots Nation is not about Barack Obama although he has a presence there. Progressive activists and Democrats from a wide variety of groups with many different viewpoints are there. If you're not interested, scroll on by but don't do snide drive-bys here. Last warning.


Netroots Nation is fauxgressive (none / 0) (#8)
by myiq2xu on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 06:54:12 PM EST

and it represents a narrow viewpoint.

Dissent is deleted.


Obama's campaigning heavily. . . (none / 0) (#13)
by LarryInNYC on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:19:14 PM EST

in Texas? News to me.

If I were a political candidate I stay as far away as possible from something like Netroots Nation. Why face an ornery group of undisciplined people who take delight in pulling their support from a candidate who does not toe exactly their political line. Indeed, all Obama had to do was read some of the stuff written in support of him in the blogosphere to know that there's no percentage in his attending.


NYT sd. Sen. Obama is busy (5.00 / 1) (#15)
by oculus on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:22:11 PM EST

preparing for his overseas tour. Got to do the laundry and pack, ya know.


And I'm sure he's busy (5.00 / 2) (#19)
by Dr Molly on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:59:14 PM EST

taking a bold leadership stand in defense of women's rights by writing a scathing letter to the Bush administration about their outrageous attempts to equate contraceptives with abortion.


Technically. . . (none / 0) (#16)
by LarryInNYC on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:24:56 PM EST

the Times said that Obama's campaign said that he's busy prepping for his trip. Which seems reasonable to me.

But I don't see that he's under any kind of obligation to attend NN -- a relatively small gathering that is (or ought to be) in the bag for him.

He's got plenty to do. For instance, I just read he's opening twenty offices in Virginia this weekend -- if he has any spare time, he ought to spend it there.


: He isn't under any obligation, but, (none / 0) (#17)
by oculus on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:33:34 PM EST

since the press will be there, I'm surprised he won't be also. Maybe just a quick walk through the concourse?

I read today that only about 1800-2000 people (none / 0) (#18)
by Angel on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:35:22 PM EST

will be attending. Don't know if that includes the media covering the event.


I've been to many a convention (none / 0) (#30)
by talex26 on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:38:10 PM EST

where only 2000 people attended. But those 2000 represented another 10 t0 20 thousand or more that could not attend. When someone important in the public eye took the time to attend it was not overlooked by those who could not attend.

In this case it could be argued that those 1800-2000 people you speak of represent 100 thousand people or more.

You tell me how may people participate weekly on Netroots blogs? How many more who don't have contributed to Obama's campaign online? Another 100 thousand or more?

So this argument that a few of you have made that Netroots Nation is thinly attended is just not valid. Many more are affected than just those who physically attend. Will this be written about on blogs and in the MSM as in the past? You bet it will. This gathering is something most people in the Netroots are very proud of and represents a brick and mortar approach to taking the netroots to another level complete with names and faces and important people in government taking the time to honor and respect what the Netroots has done and is trying to do. Obama says it is all about us. Well damn it then why does he not honor and respect that with a few hours of his time. It's not like he doesn't have a private jet with captive news personal to talk to. It's not like that jet does not have state of the art communication that keeps him in contact with whoever he needs to be in contact with. No excuses is all I am saying. And for that Jeralyn gets pissed at me? I'll be in Austin over the weekend. Obama won't. And I am the one to catch flack?

That is all I was trying to say in my original post without being too wordy. But no, my post was an insult to Obama. Yeah right.


I didn't say it was thinly attended (5.00 / 1) (#33)
by myiq2xu on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:45:24 PM EST

I said it was unrepresentative of the true net roots.

It is more like "Obama Bloggers" than a true cross-section of the progressive blogosphere.

Most of them aren't even real progressives, they're fauxgressives.


Don't lump me in with any argument. I was only (5.00 / 0) (#35)
by Angel on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:00:08 PM EST

reporting what I read in the Austin American Statesman regarding attendance. I don't give a hoot how many are in attendance or who or what they represent or what the ultimate online attendance will be. My comment was factual and was not in any way dismissive of Netroots Nation. Man, everybody needs to take a chill pill.


You actually read the AAS (none / 0) (#40)
by D Jessup on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:10:22 PM EST

I gave it up earlier this year.


: Only because it's necessary for my work. (none / 0) (#43)
by Angel on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:15:51 PM EST

Maybe Obama could send.... (none / 0) (#45)
by EL seattle on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:25:24 PM EST

Hillary Clinton to speak in his stead.


Once upon a time (5.00 / 1) (#24)
by Steve M on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:10:37 PM EST

I used to be quite enthused about the idea of attending a Yearly Kos someday. Now you couldn't even pay me to read the site.

I thought maybe I'd finally go this year (5.00 / 1) (#26)
by andgarden on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:20:31 PM EST

Then. . .


I'd still like to match up a few people (none / 0) (#28)
by oculus on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:32:18 PM EST

with their blog personalities.


Depending on the person (none / 0) (#31)
by Coldblue on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:38:22 PM EST

my experience was that they are neither as aggressive or passive in person as their blogger personality would have led you to believe.


How interesting. Wouldn't that (5.00 / 1) (#32)
by oculus on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:39:37 PM EST

make for an interesting article.


Not as interesting (none / 0) (#41)
by Fabian on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:12:29 PM EST

as people might think.

Internet conversations are very well suited to Aspergers people who have real problems with face to face social interactions. They can't pick up and process non verbal cues that well, plus some other social handicaps. But there are no problems with eye contact and so forth on the internet. There is plenty of time to compose and revise a thought.

I'd expect Aspergers folks who seem fairly normal on the internet to either seem very quiet in person or a bit overbearing.

I'd also expect some people who seem very patient on the internet to be more rude in person. It's easy to fake manners on the internet and there is no [preview] button in real life.

What I'd be more interested in is how candidate enthusiasm on the internet translates to real life. What do people really say?


My internet personality (none / 0) (#47)
by andgarden on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:51:45 PM EST

is essentially my RL personality. I don't have the patience or interest to formulate another one.


: My RL personality (none / 0) (#48)
by myiq2xu on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 10:00:53 PM EST

is worse than this one

Don't forget the NYT magazine (none / 0) (#49)
by oculus on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 11:06:14 PM EST

piece. Someone's opinion, can't remember whose, was that people comment on blogs because, in their opinion, no one listens to them in real life.


Yeah but (5.00 / 3) (#50)
by Steve M on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 11:13:48 PM EST

nobody listens to me on the blogs either.


That's a lie. BTD invited you for a beer. (none / 0) (#51)
by oculus on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 11:20:09 PM EST

Just watch (none / 0) (#52)
by Steve M on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 11:23:15 PM EST

I guarantee you it will be in a very noisy bar.


Ha. He's probably a very soft-spoken, (none / 0) (#53)
by oculus on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 11:31:37 PM EST

Asberger's afflicted soul who seldom ventures outdoors in the daylights.


: Good One! (none / 0) (#54)
by squeaky on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 11:37:20 PM EST

lol

When YKI was on, we were (none / 0) (#25)
by oculus on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:18:39 PM EST

so sorry not to be there. The only thing I am remotely curious about this time is the age range of the attendees.


: They have to be in bed by 10pm (5.00 / 1) (#29)
by myiq2xu on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:36:40 PM EST

and no alcohol is allowed.
Does that give you a hint?

Local newspaper is the Austin American-Statesman. (none / 0) (#1)
by Angel on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 05:37:53 PM EST

go to statesman.com

Their access is sometimes kind of weird if you're not a paid subscriber but the hassle might be worth it to you.

So dissent is deleted now? (none / 0) (#6)
by myiq2xu on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 06:49:22 PM EST

Very progressive.

dissent is fine (none / 0) (#7)
by Jeralyn on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 06:53:39 PM EST

personal insults and attacks are not.


: I asked "Why?" (none / 0) (#9)
by myiq2xu on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 06:55:13 PM EST

And stated that Netroots Nation isn't.
That is not a personal insult or an attack.

Netroots Nation is like (none / 0) (#10)
by myiq2xu on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:03:57 PM EST

the "Moral Majority"

There used to be a saying "The Moral Majority is neither"

Netroots Nation does not represent the net roots nor the nation.

: These days much of the action on the Net (none / 0) (#27)
by FemB4dem on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:21:05 PM EST

is PUMA action. Together4us.com has just made a big splash, and Justsaynodeal.com seems to be everywhere. My guess is that no one from any of these parts of the Netroots are welcome at Netroots Nation, so I agree the term is a misnomer. They should have stuck with YearlyKos. Or better yet, called themselves Netroots Obamanation -- that would be accurate.

General Wesley Clark will also be speaking tonight (none / 0) (#12)
by NCarolinawoman on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:16:02 PM EST

as well as Howard Dean. I don't see the General's name listed on the Netroots Nation schedule; but I did read this information on the General's website.

Since he was one of Hillary's biggest advocates, I will be curious to see how he is received.

Personally, I think it is very gracious on his part to attend.

Will they drag him out (none / 0) (#14)
by myiq2xu on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:22:02 PM EST

from under the bus?

Or just toss him a microphone under there?


: Netroots schizophrenia (none / 0) (#42)
by Valhalla on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:12:44 PM EST

The netroots love Clark enough to forgive him his support of Hillary.
I find a lot to admire about Clark myself, but the Netroots can't keep themselves from salivating over him. His West Point education, his Rhodes Scholarship, and his military service, plus he's a General! He's just like them! Ok, not really, but he's just like who they imagine they are, plus did I mention he's a General? He's got all the tingly-leg factors going for him.
Hillary should have sent him out to campaign aggressively for her, or announced him as her top VP pick in March; the contradiction with CDS would've caused heads to explode all over the 'Nation' and she would be the nominee.

Most of the Netroots spews as much (none / 0) (#20)
by my opinion on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:00:22 PM EST

propaganda as the MSM. Not sure this allowed to be said at this site anymore, but it's my opinion.

: Agree completely (none / 0) (#23)
by Dr Molly on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:04:13 PM EST

Have lost all respect for most of them. Can count on one hand the bloggers that have anything intellectually honest or interesting to say.

Thanks, but (none / 0) (#21)
by Coldblue on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:00:52 PM EST

I'll pass. Thankfully, I'm not going.

Last year at Ykos2 I met several people that I held in high regard, but most of them later became 'Change' followers and they now no longer have the same degree of my respect.

There is only one exception, and I would do anything for that individual (who shall remain nameless).

How about if Jeralyn and BTD (none / 0) (#22)
by oculus on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:02:44 PM EST

do one of their live blogs for an event of NN08? Say, for example, Gen. Clark's portion.

Is Netroots Nation going to be carried (none / 0) (#34)
by Radiowalla on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:47:29 PM EST

on C-SPAN?

I always wanted to go (none / 0) (#38)
by D Jessup on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:05:52 PM EST

but now that it is here in Austin this year I have absolutely no desire to visit with a bunch of fauxprogessives. Iam also passing on all the parties. I saw enough of them at my precint and county caucases. One of the great speakers they had a tap for tonight was John Dean. Whoppee.. It is also extremely hot and nasty humid.

If it was in my town (none / 0) (#44)
by Fabian on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:17:09 PM EST

I'd be there.

But the south in July/August is not my cup of tea. New Orleans folks were fighting to bring it there. Gack and double gack. I hate it when AC is a necessity and not a luxury and outdoors is a place you just do not want to be. Walk out the door and have the heat wilt me and the humidity suffocate me? By choice? No thanks.


: Still can't get excited (5.00 / 1) (#46)
by D Jessup on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:43:25 PM EST

There is way to much about Obama going on there and Obama in MHO is no progressive, so I rather just read what the experts have to say and play disk golf at Pease Park