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So you're the WaPo reporter assigned to do a story about Blogs At The Conventions, right? You labor upon a holiday weekend and bring forth this:

More than 15,000 people will converge on Boston later this month to cover the Democratic National Convention -- including, for the first time, bloggers. The Democratic Party plans to give media credentials to a select group of bloggers who want to cover the event, where Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) is expected to accept his party's presidential nomination. The group has not announced which bloggers might get the passes, but that information will come in the "next few weeks," an event spokeswoman said.

Now is it just me, or does it make sense to you that if you were assigned a story like this, one place you might check is the bostonDparty Democratic Party Official Convention Blog?? If he had he would have found this data point:

What is it time for then?

The time has come to officially credential bloggers. Starting tomorrow, we will be notifying the bloggers who applied for credentials and letting them know if they’ve been accredited.

It took us a little longer than we hoped, but then again, we got more applications than we imagined. The response was incredible. So I want to thank all of you. I know you’re all used to getting and sharing information as fast as your ISP allows, but thank you for the patience and understanding that is often a prerequisite in politics when doing something meaningful for the first time.

So forget the Kerry VP race, who do we want for Dem Convention Blogger? The story doesn't give numbers but let's say they hand out five. Figure Atrios and dKos are a lock, so who would you like for the other three? Voting begins....now.