Blogging, personal tools, technology, interactive
SOURCE: CNN
Bloggers get convention credentials
Instant, interactive communication making a political mark
By Marsha Walton
CNN
Friday, July 23, 2004 Posted: 8:22 PM EDT (0022 GMT)
CNN) -- A new breed of political observers will be offering volumes of pointed commentary at this year's political conventions.
But most of these bloggers (short for Web loggers) don't fit the profile of a traditional journalist on the campaign trail.
"They are igniting a great deal of enthusiasm and energy among partisans, at least among some of the very political blogs out there," said Howard Finberg, faculty member of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida.
For the first time, the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention will credential a small number of bloggers to cover their nominating processes. Blogging was in its infancy during the 2000 campaign.
Just as TV coverage of the presidential race gained its power with the televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, Internet blogging seems to be coming into its own in 2004....
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