Progressive bloggers will come to Austin in July

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About 3,000 people, many of them liberal bloggers, plus 300 media from around the globe are expected to descend on Austin in July for the third-annual Netroots Nation convention at the Austin Convention Center.

The convention, which will be held from July 17 to 20, grew out of the desire of members of the Daily Kos, a popular progressive political blog that gets more than 100,000 hits a day, to meet in person, said Mary Rickles, director of marketing and media for Netroots Nation. It has grown to include members of other politically progressive blogging communities and organizations as well as regular activists and candidates for local, state and national offices, Rickles said.

Netroots Nation, a virtual community of politically progressive bloggers, uses technology to help push a progressive agenda, in part by providing an online and in-person forum for exchanging ideas.

Last year, the group's convention (formerly known as the YearlyKos Convention) featured a political forum that drew seven of the eight U.S. presidential candidates, 2,300 attendees and 250 reporters. This year's lineup of speakers hasn't been finalized. But a news release said the event will include panels led by national and international experts and prominent political and issue- and policy-oriented speakers.

http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/other/03/27/0327blog.html

Austin --- a good choice. This is going to rock!

[babylonsister]

1. YearlyKos is finis, now it's Netroots Nation? News to me. nt

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

2. They changed the name

to reach out to the netroots beyond just the daily kos community.