NYTimes
excerpt:

There were the bloggers -- nearly a thousand of them, many of them familiar names by now -- emerging from the shadows of their computers for a three-day blur of workshops, panels and speeches about politics, the power of the Internet and the shortcomings of the Washington media. And right behind them was a parade of prospective Democratic presidential candidates and party leaders, their presence a tribute to just how much the often rowdy voices of the Web have been absorbed into the very political process they frequently disdain, much to the amazement, and perhaps discomfort, of some of the bloggers themselves.

hotair.com

Update: A surreal day ends on a surreal note as Andrew "Rogue Nation" Sullivan accuses us of being shrill. And of stereotyping, which is a point I'll ponder while awaiting his next missive on "Christianists."

Not particularly salacious, but they have several entries with their thoughts.  5 on the first page of a Google News search for Yearly Kos.

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2006/06/reporting_live.html
Reporting live from the California Progress Report

WaPo:  We have arrived
Interview with Kos and a recap of his speech the first night.

SF Chronicle:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/10/KOS.TMP

It's a really good article, some Markos, but quite a few quotes from attendees.  

UnionLeader.com has a FP article about it

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1202454,00.html

TIME's piece is from yesterday.  Are things that shabby?

But I don't think anyone notices the shopworn decor -- or the security guard, for that matter. The attendees who aren't folded into dank basement conference rooms have their noses shoved into laptops; about every ten steps or so in the hallways one has to avoid tripping over the legs of someone who has plonked down on the floor and commenced blogging in situ. The shabbiness of the surroundings underscores the diligent purpose of the event, at least for now.

I'll post another bit in a bit!


by kfred on Sat Jun 10, 2006 at 12:29:55 PM EST

http://counterpunch.com/smith06102006.html
excerpt:

Okay, so I'm a behind-the-times old Sixties lefty. Guilty as charged, yer Honor. I throw myself on the mercy of the court. But would somebody explain to me how anybody who thinks of himself as a "progressive", or a person of the Left in any sense, can fail to be pleased when a CIA agent is "outed"? Personally, I love it when that happens, and I wish somebody would out 'em all. Don't you?

Well, the regular communicants of Daily Kos don't see it that way. I'm lurking, under deep, deep cover -- disguised as a security guard, actually -- at their "first-annual" convention in Las Vegas. It's Day Two (Day One was reported at www.counterpunch.org/), and -- we've all been there -- Day Two has a slightly bleak, morning-after quality. (We'll get back to the CIA in a minute.)

Day One was undoubtedly exciting: all these folks who knew each other only under screen names finally meeting in the flesh -- fairly prepossessing flesh in some cases, less so in others. I hope there were at least a few hookups, though as a journalist, I personally would have declined embedding (not that it was offered, dammit).

Day Two has had the slightly tentative......

I'm so grateful for all the work the volunteers are putting into our presence - which, correct me if I'm wrong, launched off the springboard with an email from Susie Dow, and decision-making and planning with kfred, txj, Cho, Aaron, and everyone who put $0.02 and a couple of hands into the mix.

All of you who trekked to Vegas - standingup, JeninRI, Susie, Timroff, Kay, Ilona, Denise, and the rest (I'm sure I'm forgetting someone) - thank you!
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by wanderindiana on Sat Jun 10, 2006 at 02:38:26 PM EST

WaPo

by avahome on Sun Jun 11, 2006 at 12:46:40 AM EST

Republican party spokesman Tucker Bounds characterized the convention as proof that "the squeaky wheels, no matter how wobbly, get all the Democrats' oil."

Convention executive Gina Cooper dubbed the four-day gathering, "people-powered politics in action." Some attendees who spent four days putting faces to words posted by Internet Web log, or blog, authors and readers, saw strength in their numbers.

"I think what we've learned is, we've got a community," said P.Z. Myers, 49, a University of Minnesota biology professor from Morris, Minn. "It's more than people just sitting and chatting over the wires."