Multiple "reporters" (bloggers weren't considered real press yet) scurried over to look at the booth and the laptop and even some of the "mainstream" tech press – there were still magazines back then – reported breathlessly about the innovation.
The undisputed leader in this space is TechMeme, which most bloggers check multiple times per day for news.
In related news, an AT&T Twitter bot has been responding to negative comments by bloggers with multiple Tweets from fake accounts.
Yet somehow we find ourselves included on multiple lists of political bloggers -- two women amidst a sea of straight white men.
The entire spectacle is pure blogger bait: The multiple aphorisms and platitudes that come out of these characters' mouths have become a running joke among us oh-so-important tech writers and some of the younger Valley crowd precisely because it makes all of us feel more legit in comparison.
People look for news far more often during the day, they are far more likely to seek multiple sources as well as favorite bloggers and writers, and they are far more interested in watching video online.
"We still do not know a source for the list," online activist Imran H Sarker told the Guardian, saying he believed it contained multiple names and pseudonyms for individual bloggers.
Perhaps most significantly, newspapers seem to be getting more comfortable with the notion that Internet users are going to visit multiple sites, like those run by bloggers.
Today's event will involve Skype interventions from my colleague Steve Clemons, in Berlin, multiple webcasts, and a roundtable of blogger journalists in Washington — heck, what could possibly go wrong?
Beyond Wonkblog, there's currently speculation in the newsroom, according to multiple Post sources, that foreign policy blogger Max Fisher may head to the new venture.
