All posts tagged "Netroots Nation"

Netroots Nation 2013 kicked off on Thursday evening with a speech from Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) in San Jose, California.

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Back from Netroots Nation, and while I'm still a little tired, I'm energized as usual after the conference.  As many of you no doubt know, the pathetic shadow conference Right Online was closer than ever this year.  And by "pathetic shadow conference", I mean it.  Every year, Right Online finds out where Netroots Nation is and schedules near there, because there's something about being conservative that requires being childish and petulant.  This year, it was especially ugly, because the Right Online was closer than ever to Netroots Nation, and they were in fact in the Hilton that many of us---including myself---were staying at.  Which means that the childish, petulant behavior kept spilling over.  And also that I ran into Andrew Breitbart downtown and took a picture of him standing with a friend (with his permission, of course!).  Breitbart showed up at Netroots Nation, which is irritating because while the vast majority of attendees react to such behavior the way you should---with scorn bordering on indifference---a handful of people got provoked and taped themselves yelling stupid shit at him.  Which is what he no doubt hoped would happen, and leave media with the assumption that "both sides" are bad, even though only one side schedules an entire conference for the sole purpose of irritating their opponents.  

I'm reporting from NYC at the 2010 BlogHer convention, and it's my first time attending this event, held this year at the New York Hilton. It is HUGE; it's like an explosion of women from all walks of blogging life - mom bloggers, young newbies, seasoned women full of energy and activism, lifestyle bloggers, etc.

My good friend Joe Sudbay of Americablog and I were interviewed by former Air America radio host Sam Seder while we were at Netroots Nation (you can see me in the background, but my vid isn't available so far). Joe's is up, so take a peek.

I'm still at Netroots Nation (you can follow updates at my Twitter feed or at hashtag #nn10), so I don't have a lot of time to write. But if you're interested, I was recently on the skepticism-oriented podcast the Big Cigarette. You can listen here. They got me to talk about the oh so fun pleasure of being targeted by a right wing smear campaign years ago, and about my new book. Check it out!