USA Today: Bloggers to Join the Mainstream at Conventions

NOTE: This article contains no genealogy-related information.

Most people are still struggling with the concept of a "blog" and yet USA Today reports that the concept is supplementing and perhaps even replacing conventional journalism in some arenas. In a nod to the changing ways that news is delivered, ''bloggers'' -- writers who post their work directly on the Web -- also have been credentialed as journalists. They'll be joining the hoards of newspaper, magazine, TV and radio reporters who cover Democrats in Boston the last week in July and then Republicans in New York in August.

You can read this interesting story at http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040714/6363153s.htm

Maybe I should apply. I write a blog and the Democratic Naional Convention is being held a few blocks from my office....