![]() His blog, Daily Kos, and it is Kos like Markos, reaches some 600,000 people a day, more than many daily newspapers. In fact, he's kind of the star of the show here. MARKOS MOULITSAS (Daily Kos founder): Misconceptions about bloggers is, you know, we're all a bunch of anti-social misfits who sit there in a basement in this aura of the pasty glow of the monitor on our faces.īURBANK: Markos Moulitsas is none of those things. With their gray hair and distinct lack of tattoos, they seemed somehow older or less tech savvy or just more socially adjusted than people who would be showing up at a blogging conference. If you want to know what's going on in the world, you have to read the blogs.īURBANK: The Cohens, who were some of the 1000 or so conference attendees, didn't really look all that bloggy, whatever that means. COHEN: Nothing is in the mainstream media. We got rid of our television and so she's glommed onto the computer. EDWARD COHEN (Conference attendee): Addict is right. CATHY COHEN (Conference attendee): I'm a blog reading addict. He says he's not big on crowds, but so great was his wife's love for the politically left blogoshpere that she got him to go. Yearly Kos, as it's being called, was Edward Cohen's first time at a grassroots convention. If you're working the registration desk at the first major convention bringing together left-leaning political bloggers, there's one question you probably don't have to ask.Ĭathy and Edward Cohen of Los Angeles did register online. It's named after the influential progressive blog Daily Kos and it's being billed as the largest gathering ever of left-leaning political bloggers. The yearly Kos conference, that's spelled k-o-s, is being held at the Riviera Hotel. Advocates of the liberal cause or causes have been descending on Las Vegas this week.
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