Convention blogs: 'lively, partisan, trivial, weighty, irreverent...'

The Baltimore Sun's David Folkenflik says convention blogs are "lively, partisan, trivial, weighty, irreverent or irrelevant."

They incorporate visual cues such as maps, photographs or political ads with written analyses and online links to reports from the traditional press, sometimes with cutting commentary. And they encourage responses and rebuttals from readers - the conversational "threads" that often feed further commentaries from the bloggers themselves.

Web logs offer a perfect format for an event invested with political emotion but little true news, says Jonathan Dube, managing producer for MSNBC.com and publisher of cyberjournalist.net.

"The most interesting information tends to be tidbits of observations, gossip and news nuggets," Dube says by e-mail. "The bloggers - particularly the delegate bloggers - are doing a good job of capturing the excitement the Democrats at the convention are feeling. There may not be a lot of news, but for a lot of people this is a big deal, and that really comes through."

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