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Woot! Looky what SWWBO and I are going to next week!

By The Armorer on February 7, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (4)

The Dole Institute of Politics and Director Bill Lacy
invite you and a guest for Supper and Pre-Event Discussion with our guest panelists for:

“Blog to the Chief:

The Impact of Political Blogs on the 2008 Election”

Jerome Armstrong

Founder of MyDD

Erick-Woods Erickson

Managing editor of RedState.com and Peachpundit.com.

Patrick Hynes

Founder and proprietor of the blog Ankle Biting Pundits.

Scott Johnson

Cofounder of the Power Line blog.

Joan McCarter

Contributing editor at Daily Kos, writing as "Mcjoan."

Tuesday, February 13, 5:30 p.m.

at the Dole Institute of Politics

Program follows at 7:30 p.m.

Only downside, I'll have to wear a tie...

And David Perlmutter, KU faculty prof who is the source of my invite, tells me they are considering organizing a similar panel on milblogging. Sweet!

Heh. The advantages of being a medium sized fish in a small pond - this pond being bloggers in Kansas. I suspect if this event were being held at Georgetown, I prolly would not have been on the invite list. Hey - there are some advantages to living in the fly-over!

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4 Comments

By Maggie on February 7, 2007 8:15 AM

Congratulations! Looks like fun.

By KCSteve on February 7, 2007 12:00 PM

Of course we just have to wonder if you (or anyone else) is going to live-blog the event.

By kat-missouri on February 7, 2007 12:29 PM

Hmmm...may have to crash the party with a video camera. LOL

By ry on February 7, 2007 1:14 PM

Ties make excellent garrots so it's not like you'll be going unarmed. (Just trying to make you feel better about it.)

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ry: Ties make excellent garrots so it's not like you'll be going unarmed. (Just trying to mak ...
kat-missouri: Hmmm...may have to crash the party with a video camera. LOL ...
KCSteve: Of course we just have to wonder if you (or anyone else) is going to live-blog the event. ...
Maggie: Congratulations! Looks like fun. ...

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