The PdF Conference

The Personal Democracy Conference is going on in NYC right now. I can't spend $600 to attend, so I'm following commentary on the Internet. The attendee list made me drool; lots of big names will be there. I'm surfing around to get the gossip. Craig Newmark talks about some online grassroots political efforts. Also check out: Micah Sifry, Jose Antonio Vargas (live blogging), [more to come]

In other politics and Internet gossip, The New York Times will begin hosting FiveThirtyEight and make its founder, Nate Silver, a
regular contributor to the newspaper and the Sunday magazine.