Take Back America Conference« Thread Started on Jun 19, 2007, 2:13pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Blogging the Bloggers Panel at Take Back America ConferenceSubmitted by davidswanson on June 19, 2007 - 10:43am. By David Swansonread at source> http://www.democrats.com/node/13319Isaiah Poole is MCing a panel with bloggers Chris Bowers, Jim Dean, Oliver Willis, Jane Hamsher, and Matt Stoller at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, D.C., so of course I'm blogging it.Bowers opens with discussion of moving from blogging to activism. Prime example for him is running primary challenges (this conference is all about elections). He points to Lamont's challenge to Lieberman. Could have also pointed to 2008 challenges being organized at http://democrats.comOther examples he lists: getting Gannon fired, blocking Bolton appointment, raising profile of Plame scandal.Need an ongoing longterm campaign, he says, and to make a website the central hub with the best source of ongoing content.Then you need as many other blogs as possible pointing to you and producing original content.Every newsroom reads the progressive blogosphere, Bowers claims.