We've talked a lot about unConventional recently, but did you know there were two large ebook projects released before the 2006 YearlyKos Convention?
We have re-released both Kosmos: You Are Here and The Trollhouse Cookbook in our Goodstorm store. Both of these works were produced by generous YKC volunteers.
Brian Keeler and Mark Bowllan attended the YearlyKos convention in Vegas last year, and together have put together a remarkable 39 minute documentary of the event.
UnConventional, YearlyKos: Citizens, Focus and Action, an in-depth eBook covering the first YearlyKos convention is available NOW.
[Originally posted by Hunter at DailyKos. Excerpted from UnConventional, YearlyKos: Citizens, Focus and Action, the eBook documenting, in photographs and essays, the YearlyKos '06 convention and the netroots itself. The eBook can be purchased as a 182-page pdf here; proceeds from sales go towards supporting future YearlyKos events. Please consider supporting YearlyKos '07 by purchasing a copy.]
Over the years, I have learned one thing about driving to Las Vegas on these roads. No matter which road you take, no matter how long the drive to get there, you will always get to Las Vegas, the city, exactly one hour beyond the point where you have begun to lose all sense of patience with the road, the car, whatever junky snacks you have brought, the once-cold water bottles now the exact temperature of the car seat next to you, and the music you are listening to. No matter which road, or how long the journey has taken, or how miraculous the journey through windblown desolation, over rock and plain, past invisible lives lived hard and well, there will be one point, one particular rise and fall of the road through yet another dry and barren pass, where you are simply done with it.
Being from Alabama, I understand how communities, especially those in the South, pride themselves on their own. So you can imagine my excitement to read the following headline at al.com, the website for Alabama's three largest newspapers:
Waging Peace: Alabama teen's anti-war Web site creates furor
UnConventional, YearlyKos: Citizens, Focus and Action, an in-depth eBook covering the first YearlyKos convention is available NOW. A team of four brilliant photographers led by Mona Brooks along with an editorial staff led by Hunter of Daily Kos fame, documented every aspect of the convention, from caucuses to keynote speeches, from volunteers to political heavy-hitters, so many Kos bloggers, and more.
I'm sure that everyone remembers the big keynote speech of YKC 2006. It was a Saturday night, and we had put the bulk of a great convention behind us. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid got on stage and addressed a room filled with more than 1,000 bloggers. "Give 'Em Hell Harry" signs filled the room.
I wanted to call your attention to an interesting diary that showed up on DailyKos recently titled MetaDailyKos: Community and Collaboration.
Cross-posted at DailyKos
Time has flown by and just a few short months ago we were all fired up about heading to Vegas for the very first gathering of the netroots at the YearlyKos Convention. A group of us had the idea that this was an important enough historical event that it should be documented. A group of four photographers and several volunteers spent time documenting the event and closed the convention with a slide show (previous diaries here and here.)
