Weblogs in Presidential Politics
This is a description of a session for BloggerCon, Day 1.
Few people doubt that the Internet is playing a major role in the 2004 presidential campaign in the United States. This session, added to the BloggerCon Day 1 schedule as the campaign was heating up, will explore techniques used by bloggers inside the campaigns, the role of voter weblogs, and how new communication technology changes politics in the United States and perhaps elsewhere.
Moderator: Dave Winer, Berkman Center for the Internet & Society, Harvard Law School.
Participants 
1. Mathew Gross, Howard Dean campaign.
2. Joe Jones, Bob Graham campaign.
3. Cameron Barrett, Wesley Clark campaign.
4. Eric Folley, Democratic National Committee.
Notes
We have extended an open invitation to all leading Democrat and Republican campaigns with weblogs, including John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards.
We are in communication with people affiliated with the George Bush campaign.
Any major presidential campaign with a weblog as of October 1 is welcome to participate in this session.
BloggerCon is non-partisan, and will not endorse any political party or candidate. We will avoid, as much as possible, a debate on the merits of the candidates. Our interest is in how the campaigns are using weblogs, and how use of weblogs could be improved for all campaigns.
See also
DaveNet: Tips for Candidates re Weblogs.
Day 2 session that reviews and expands on this Day 1 session.
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