Presented at
The Fifth HOPE (2004),
July 9, 2004, 6 p.m.
(60 minutes)
The Democratic National Convention has become a sclerotic, television-driven celebrity parade. This year bloggers - aka hacker journalists - are being invited onto the floor to shake things up. Can the Internet bring democracy back to the mother of all Democratic Party shindigs? The panel will talk about what is planned - from WiFi to video blogging - and how you can get involved, in Boston or remotely.
Presenters:
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Brad Johnson
Brad Johnson is a science and technology writer as well as an activist. He coauthored, as Adam Brate, Making the Cisco Connection, a business history of the datacom giant, and Technomanifestos, a history of the information revolution from Alan Turing and J.C.R. Licklider to Abbie Hoffman and Richard Stallman. In recent months he has volunteered for the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns in addition to the Democratic National Convention.
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