Blog for Personal Democracy Forum 2008

Due to the bad weather, Elizabeth Edwards's flights up from North Carolina today were all canceled and she will not be able join us at 9:00am as planned. We are hoping that she will be able to make it to New York tomorrow to join us later in the day. To accommodate her, we are shifting the "Inside the Presidential Campaigns: What Worked, What Didn't" plenary, with the six top e-campaign staffers, from 5pm to 11:45am. We are also making some shifts in the order of the other morning speakers to accommodate their schedules as well. So, here's the revised morning schedule:

8:30-8:40am: Welcome--Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry
8:40-9:00am: Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential--Zephyr Teachout
9:00-9:15am: Visualizing the Political Blogosphere--Anthony Hamelle
9:15-9:30am: When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics--Matthew Hurst
9:30-10:10am: A New Activist System: The Changing Role of the Net-roots and the Right-roots: Jane Hamsher and Patrick Ruffini
10:10-10:40am: Coffee Break and Press Briefing on "New Tools for Political Transparency"
10:40-11:20am: A New Media System? Or Old Wine in New Bottles?--Chuck Defeo and Arianna Huffington
11:20-11:45am: Politics As If Everybody Can Participate--Clay Shirky
11:45-12:45pm: Inside the Presidential Campaigns: What Worked, What Didn't--Peter Daou, Mindy Finn, Justine Lam, Tracy Russo, Joe Rospars, Mark Soohoo

The afternoon breakout sessions remain as originally scheduled.