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August 10, 2006
Surrounded by the "Famous for the Blogosphere"
The Ned Lamont victory party had its own "blogger room" where the blogosphere "celebrities" got to gather and... well, it seemed that they were given the opportunity to watch on a TV in the room what was going on in the ballroom next door and update their weblogs while the celebration was going on.
Ok, that's a little unfair. Really, it provided a safe place for people to put their laptops while bloggers got up to take pictures as well as a place where there were ample power outlets so their laptop batteries wouldn't run down. As my own laptop battery was running down while I checked the election returns online, I walked in to the "blogger room" with my laptop in hand, and even though I didn't have a press pass, it appeared as though I fit right in:
Sitting across from me was Cos, who is a local guy I know from the Boston area when we volunteered for the Howard Dean campaign, as well as Lindsay Beyerstein of majikthise, a blog I read and occasionally comment on:
Here, finally, is Duncan Black, aka atrios who also spent the day in Connecticut. This picture was taken right before he offered a sarcastic toast "to blogofascism," referring to the irate epithet directed at online activists who dared propose that a democratic election be contested in order to determine whether Lieberman should have the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat:
Posted by Dean at August 10, 2006 11:02 PM
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