Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton will all be speaking at the YearlyKos convention of activist bloggers in Chicago this weekend. The candidates will also participate in break-out sessions where they will take questions from individual bloggers in attendance.
The Democratic candidates are paying some attention to – and throwing parties for – smaller online media, which is a positive development. They’re just not paying attention to Geeks.
What’s up, guys (and gal)? Are we too Geeky for you? We’re not asking you to hang out in mom’s basement and LARP with us. We just want to know about some of your Geeky traits.
Score
Blogs as legitimate media: 1 Geeks: 0
Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
“We’re not asking you to hang out in mom’s basement and LARP with us.”
Ummm… speak for yourself!
Just kidding
It would be nice if one… just one of these people answered back. Even if it was just a form letter or something!
We’ll keep this up every day until someone does!