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Need any further proof that the blogosphere is a powerful tool and here to stay? The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is setting up a two story 8,000 square foot "headquarters" to serve hundreds of bloggers expected at the Democratic National Convention in Denver starting next week. It will do the same for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

Also planning a major presence to help bloggers: YouTube...which didn't even really exist four years ago.

At the RNC, about 200 bloggers have been credentialed to work from the press filing center according to the Journal.

Blogs have become a major force in politics. Chatter in the blogosphere is monitored by the pols, and the pundits, and yes, even the so-called mainstream media. The conventions will be fertile ground.

So while the TV networks have foresaken the primetime gavel to gavel coverage of yesteryear, new forms of media and new watchdogs are providing other ways to follow the party conventions (not to mention the cable outlets).

Just another example of the changing information age in which we live.....

JHolt