A few days ago I started compiling a list of convention blogs, and am moving toward a new application for next week that will make it easier to find the blogs emanating from Boston, and it should make possible some neat net tricks.

1. The first thing people wanted was the list of all the feeds as an OPML file.

2. If you have a blog coming from Boston next week, whether or not you're a credentialed blogger, or if you know of any that are not on this list, please let me know and I'll add it.

3. I need four pieces of info: the name of the weblog, the URL of its RSS feed, the URL of the blog, and a one-sentence description of what you will be covering at the show, just so I know we're not getting spammed. Please send me an email or post it as a comment here.

4. I hope to have the next feature online before the end of business today.

Yesterday I got an email from Joe Trippi, disagreeing with some comments I made on Scripting News.

Dave I think you have come to the wrong conclusion about my thinking on the role the Net plays and will play in politics and in strengthening participatory democracy. 

The whole premise of my book "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is that broadcast politics has failed us and will come crashing down in the very near future if not this year then in the next election cycle or so.  I don't think the Net is just about the money -- that's what the press thinks and that's the only way they report on it -- including when they report on my thoughts. 

We provided what tools we could so that 650,000 people could build their own community -- the money followed -- too many in poltics see it as money and not about the power of people exchanging ideas and actually communicating with each other.

I hope you will read the book (and this is not to get you to buy the damn thing).  I respect your opinion and simply have formed the wrong one about my thinking -- the book makes that clear.   One of the problems of toppling the current system is that we still are in a TV dominated system in which money does matter -- the net will change that. 

And by the way the Dean campaign spent less than 20% of its resources on Television spots no matter what the press flacks say.

We're going to meet in Boston next week to talk about ideas for the future.