Yeah, I know — where is your faithful blogger when you need her? The convention is so immense, I have a constant sense of needing to be everywhere at once, and frustration that the laws of physics do not allow this. If I’m sitting in my assigned area in the main hall, I can’t blog live, and your view on TV is better than mine (if lacking the wicked cool atmospherics). Also, I’m surrounded by stone-faced writers who don’t make much conversation. Maybe I’ve been hanging out with too many amiable cartoonists. I plan to spend more time roaming around the hall today, now that I’ve more or less got my bearings.
Lots of reporters are, in fact, covering the event (at least partly) from remote places — here are a couple shots from the Blogger’s Lounge press filing area last night:
 Reporters giving their readers that "From a TV really close to the event" experience |
While there, I sat next to a blogger from Democratic Underground who was also having internet issues. Would it really be so hard to blanket the hall with free wireless for the media? I’d take that over the tote bag, nice as it is.