This is the first article in the Uppity Wisconsin Democratic Convention Coverage.

I'll be reporting from the Democratic Convention in Denver this August. I will be sending back reports, pictures, and video to Wisconsin. In return though, I'd like your help, dear readers. Help can take a lot of different forms:

We just received word out here at the farm that Uppity Wisconsin will be the credentialed blogging organization from Wisconsin at the National Democratic Convention in Denver. We're excited.

We'll have more news later about this, and information on what you can expect from Uppity Wisconsin in August. The list of state blogging credentials will be released later today.

Two recent decisions by the FEC have made it clear that bloggers are exempt from reporting regulations because we are media.

This clarifies several legal issues, and in the interests of bloggers and political web sites. The law suits in question suggested that bloggers need to be subject to FEC reporting regulations as if we were campaigners. The new FEC rulings make it clear that this is not the case, and the bloggers are exempt as are other forms of media.  See the link below. 

I attended the WisOpinion/AT&T sponsored Blog Summit II in Milwaukee on Saturday. Live blogging was difficult because most of us could not get on the wireless network in the room. The meeting was held in a pleasant room at the Marquette Law School. Personally I found it interesting to meet many of the bloggers with whom I only have email relationships.

The sessions in the conference have already been covered by much of the Cheddarsphere, so I am not going to belabor the topics of discussion other than to say that although the sessions were interesting, the most interesting session to me was the final one which was a group discussion about the future of blogging in Wisconsin, which allowed much more participation from the assembled bloggers.

You might also want to take a gander at Mike Plaisted's article about the blog summit, most of which I agree with completely.