Monthly Archives: August 2004

Blogger central: Forget Arnold. In the last few hours I’ve met Matt Welch, Jay Rosen, David Siffry and, okay, I’ll stop the blogerati name-dropping. It’s like Julian Sanchez said, oh, wait, or was it Jeff Jarvis. Anyway, it was something … Continue reading →

The oscarfication of political conventions: What you are about to witness in this post is messy: a stream-of-consciousness theory being slung out rather than written (which, come to think of it, about sums up all of my posts). Here goes: … Continue reading →

Totally random observation of RNC Monday, II: Some advice for those with “guest” access, not “media” access. You can avoid the sense of being in a mouse maze if you enter the “convention bubble” from the north (uptown) via 8th … Continue reading →

Totally random observation of RNC Monday, I: Culled from notes, now that I’ve had a few hours sleep…The elevator/hydrolic “round music pit” next to the main stage became a focus of curiousity for me: I keep wondering how bizarre the … Continue reading →

Acting PC: While magazine news is preempted this week, I wanted to follow up on an item blogged last month. Late yesterday, Ziff Davis announced it will reclassify about 20 percent of PC Magazine’s circulation from paid to non-paid. Still … Continue reading →

Observations of Monday night’s session: Didn’t blog real-time, but here are some thoughts triggered by the notes I took. Tuesday sometime, I hope to post a Quicktime piece called “things from the convention hall I doubt you saw on TV.” … Continue reading →

Can you see me? I called my son from the convention when I notice I’m in the line of view of a cable network TV camera. I’m about to be one of those idiots you see behind the anchorman — … Continue reading →

Question of the day: Perhaps it was the way I was dressed, but having been in business-type settings through lunch, I came back to the hotel, put on some jeans and a black tee-shirt and went out for some coffee. … Continue reading →

NYPD Blue video post: Due to some funky firewall configurations at the rexblog rnc headquarters, I was not able to post this last night. Our crack tech team (thanks, Blair) has provided me with a work-around. Strolling around “the biggest … Continue reading →

Go home, hayseeds: Currently, I’m setting up rexblog headquarters at a hardened position in mid-town. As I’ve noticed during my visits to New York in the past few weeks, the presence of military and police at Penn Station has been … Continue reading →

Welcome, hayseeds: Before leaving Nashville this morning, I picked up a NY Times (yes, one can even have it delivered to ones home out there in America) and was amused to read an entire section of clichéd pieces on what … Continue reading →

Uncredentialed blogging alert: We interrupt our regular blogging for the next few days as I play hayseed poser in New York City at the Republican National Convention. I have posted some relevant (?) details, disclosures and useless ramblings here. As … Continue reading →