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...grown and matured, and the gang of bloggers, commenters and readers has galvanized to be a small political force. Last weekend, as more than 800 laptop-toting lawyers, economists, teachers, housewives and others from around the country showed up for a Las Vegas convention put on by the liberal blog Daily Kos, they were joined by three members of Congress, four presidential candidates and at least seven staffers from the office of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, one of the 2008 hopefuls. Warner spent thousands on a rooftop bash that included chocolate fountains and a sushi bar, and Bill Richardson...
...moving to the center. And many of the bloggers still seemed frustrated by congressional Democrats, except for the few they've embraced, like Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who was also at the convention. "They're afraid of taking strong positions," said Jane Hamsher, who runs a popular liberal blog called firedoglake. "They're embrassed by progressives." AmericaBlog's John Aravosis said congressional Democrats should attack President Bush on privacy issues and said the clearest sign it was a good idea was "the Democrats haven't done anything...
...symbol! The mainstream media is obsolete! ?We don?t need them!? ?We can now choose for ourselves the media we consume!? The air, which had been merely charged, positively crackles. A gaggle of mainstream media reporters in the back grows nervous. ?Are you worried they?re going to blog us?? I ask someone. He replies, ?I?m worried they?re going to lynch...
...impressive as his influence is his compensation. Moulitsas started the site in May 2002 after becoming a prolific commentator on another lefty blog, Armstrong's MyDD.com. It was clunky and amateurish; today, back-of-the-envelope calculations about how much money Moulitsas makes off of Daily Kos based on ad rates run well into the six-figure range. He told the New York Times in April that it was closer to $80,000 but admitted to me later that the figure was probably higher. It?s tough to say, Moulitsas argues, because so much of the profits of the site...
...intend such modesty to be disarming, but the runaway scale of the Kos phenomenon can make it seem disingenuous. Not only are the site and the upcoming convention named after him, but many of the individual contributors have also sought to launch their own blogs using the Kos moniker. Moulitsas is now attempting to protect his identity with a trademark. "Would you call a site ?Texas Michael Moore?? ?Boston Chomsky?? That?s MY NAME." Variations on it - not protected legally, one assumes - abound. Yearly Kos participants raised funds by selling a book about the "Kosmos," and contributors to the site...