Fierce Planet

Netroots Nation is happening right now, in Pittsburgh, all weekend long. I couldn’t be there, so I dropped in to visit with friends at Netroots Nation in Second Life. We loved President Bill Clinton’s keynote speech last night too. If you missed it, Salon has a good report.

C-SPAN is carrying some of the sessions live if you can’t be in-world. Some of the speeches are archived there as well. Or you can watch in your browser via Ustream.tv.

It’s a good place to socialize, strategize, and get your engines humming for the fall. So soak in some Netroots Nation, however you can.

Update: I love this quote from his speech, which expresses my own thoughts exactly.

“I don’t care how low they drive support for this with misinformation. The minute the president signs this bill, his approval will go up. Within a year, when the good things begin to happen, and the bad things they’re saying will happen don’t happen, approval will explode.”

I tried to listen to the Senators talk yesterday at the Sotomayor hearings, but honestly most of them were too long-winded and not particularly interesting. One exception was Sheldon Whitehouse, who made some good points. If you have a few minutes, listen to this.

“America is now, more than ever, looking North to the Future.” That’s primo batshit crazy.

At least it’s brought the Michael Jackson tributes to a momentary halt.