BLOG TALK

Here in Confab City, you can't swing a messenger bag without hitting a blogger; the place is lousy with them. Hundreds are credentialed; here's one worth clicking on.

Your blog: DemConWatchBlog.com, born November 2005

Your real job: IT specialist

Your blogger name, and why: Oreo. ("That's what I've been called since I was kid. Oreo sounds like my last name.")

Your real name: Tom. ("Please just put Tom. Work reasons. You never know how people are going to react. My boss, specifically, is pretty right-wing.")

Other deets:35, married father of two, lives just outside Denver.

So your blog is kind of like a Wikipedia for conventioneers?

[Laughs.] Yeah, it's all convention, all the time. We've got the whole schedule. We've got a list of speakers. Right now we're voting on which song should be played when Obama walks into Invesco [Field]. We've got Bob Dylan ["The Times They Are A-Changin' "]. We've got Springsteen ["The Rising"]. We've got Stevie Wonder ["Uptight (Everything's Alright)"]. I'm just one of four main bloggers on the site, and we've been writing about the run-up to the convention for, what, almost three years now. It's finally here!

It's very inside-baseball, your blog. What kind of traffic are you getting?

A: We're averaging 4,000 to 5,000 visits per day. Before the Iowa caucuses, we posted a superdelegate endorsement list -- the first endorsement list on the Internet.