National KOS Convention

I wasn't aware that this convention was happening at the same time as my trip to Vegas until just before. Since we weren't registered, we couldn't access the actual event, but I was able to make it right to the doorway of the hall to look in and listen a bit. This thing was HUGE; it took up several large rooms at the Riviera that had been combined into one large hall. A nice report from the NYT (Full linkage at the end):

LAS VEGAS — If any more proof were needed of the rising influence of bloggers — at least for the Democratic Party — it could be found here on Friday on the Las Vegas Strip, where the old and new worlds of American politics engaged in a slightly awkward if mostly entertaining clash of a meeting.

They may think of themselves as rebels, separate from mainstream politics and media. But by the end of a day on which the convention halls were shoulder to shoulder with bloggers, Democratic operatives, candidates and Washington reporters, it seemed that bloggers were well on the way to becoming — dare we say it? — part of the American political establishment. Indeed, the convention, the first of what organizers said would become an annual event, seems on the way to becoming as much a part of the Democratic political circuit as the Iowa State Fair.

Excerpted from a NYT story.

And even more (video as well).