The New York Times published an article about how bloggers and online activists are finding the experience of preparing for the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
They asked Advomatic what we were going to do while we were there. My answer:
"I'm telling everyone to meet me at The Big Tent," said Fred Gooltz, 30, an online strategist with Advomatic, LLC, a web development and strategy firm founded by Howard Dean for President alumni. "That's where I'll be meeting everyone else who's like me, folks that I've only met online or blogged and e-mailed with." Mr. Gooltz sees the $100 fee as a bargain, especially since he would rather network "with movementarians, who see themselves as a progressive movement separate from the Democratic party hierarchy."
No offense to the mucky mucks, but this looks more my style, The Big Tent.
In 2004 I was a volunteer coordinator at the Democratic National Committee's Rapid Response "war room" that the Party built down the road from Madison Square Garden where the GOP spent a week mocking a war hero.
While it was fun to train and dispatch crews to actions all around New York City, I knew that the real hub of action was north of The Garden. Up on 42nd Street, at a tiny theatre called The Tank, "The Progressive Tourist Bureau" and "Blogger Alley" were the left's real mission control.
As the founder of Living Liberally and The Tank put it:
