Bloggers Hit the Beaches in Sandy Eggo

and the Convention Center, too. 

The SFChronicle has a front pager about the Democratic State Convention and how the "bloggers" have swarmed to attend...and blog about it. (Including our very own Ellen, I believe)

When Democrats gathered at their candidate-rich California state convention five years ago, a lone blogger from Berkeley was the first, and only, one of his kind to apply for media credentials to cover the events.

...This year, a record 50 Internet-publication bloggers will join the estimated 400 credentialed "mainstream" media in the press room to track the goings-on of seven Democratic presidential candidates and 2,100 California party delegates this weekend.

Calitics is wondering who said this, though.

...But one key state Democratic strategist, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of concern for riling the netroots crowd, warns that such efforts are potentially positive and negative.

Netroots commentary can frequently be intensely personal, even "totally mean and irrational," the strategist said, with some bloggers finding power in their ability "to assassinate political characters online."

"It's amplified by the anonymity, and it can be scary that it's so irresponsible," the insider said

Commentary intensely personal and "totally mean and irrational?" Oh, you mean like the latest from those "netroots" folks Adam Nagourney and Maureen Dowd who went after John Edwards' hair?