While I was trying to wake up this morning I heard on the radio some news about the DNC going on in Boston. I realized that I was looking forward for reports from the few bloggers I know who are participating.

Of all DNC bloggers I only know (in the sense that I read regularly and have had a few conversations with) Dave Winer and David Weinberger. While reading their weblogs this morning I'm wondering why I find their words much more interesting than what all mainstream media are saying and writing.

A few possible answers:

• In these years reading them writing about stuff I had opinions about I have been able to "calibrate points of view". I don't agree with everything they say but I tend to have a pretty clear feeling about our relative positions.
• They are their own publishers, nobody is controlling or editing what they write but themselves.
  
• They don't have any "let's rule the world in order to sell more diapers ads" hidden agenda.
• They are normal people. They wrote the convetion was boring, journalists didn't.
• ...
  

Congratulations to Suw for her new blog at Corante: Strange Attractor.