I was listening to VPR this morning on my way into work and heard Ross Sneyd interviewing John Odum of Green Mountain Daily. Odum usually blogs from Montpelier, but he’ll be posting from the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August.

The DNC chose a blog from each state to cover the convention. Odum and GMD will represent Vermont.

Click here to listen to the VPR interview. At the end, Ross makes it sound like the traditional media in Vermont will be getting all of their news from the blogs. But in fact, Seven Days contributing writer Kevin J. Kelley will be at the convention. I think he’s covering it for a newspaper in Kenya.

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