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Adam Nagourney has this NYT story on the Daily Kos's Las Vegas convention.
As became clear from the rather large and diverse crowd here, the blogosphere has become for the left what talk radio has been for the right: a way of organizing and communicating to supporters. Blogging is nowhere near the force among Republicans as it is among Democrats, and talk radio is a much more effective tool for Republicans.

Is that really so? Daily Kos is lefty Dem, or course, but TTLB's top ten is dominated by right wing blogs (Instapundit, Michelle Malkin, etc.) On the other hand, wignut blogs are boring, mainly because they just propagate the party line, and rarely allow debate, and it's pretty easy to believe they don't have much influence.

Most of the prominent lefty blogs feature comments that are largely uncensored, with the resulting lively debate, plus excruciatingly familiar trolls from antiabortion and libertarian types.

In any case, the convention attracted a lot of Dem candidates, includings Mark Warner, Bill Richardson, and Wesley Clark.

Not present were the very unpopular (with this crowd) Hillary and the fervently hated Joe Lieberman.

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  1. QUASAR91:59 PM

    From the Wikipedia

    Robert FitzRoy uses the new telegraph system to gather daily observations from across England and develops synoptic charts allowing predictions to be made, at the same time coining the term "weather forecast". The first ever daily weather forecasts were published by him in The Times in 1860, and in the following year a system was introduced of hoisting storm warning cones at principal ports when a gale was expected.

    This was the same Admiral Robert FitzRoy who had commanded The Beagle of Darwin's voyage. His telegraph was inspired by the identification of storm systems that did damage over a long swath. Reputedly, the Royal Navy was more concerned about the sinking of the Royal Charter than about umbrellas.

    Yep, weather forecasts storms, rainy, calm, sunny, etc,...

    CIP you didn't read into the pun, original tv weather forecasts in balmy England to warn about rain.
    resulted in increases in brollie sales. In future xpect increases in sales of shades, parasols & suntan lotion. lol!

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