The San Francisco Chronicle writes up Yearly Kos and its growing influence. It makes the point that right wing sites are just not in the same league as Daily Kos and other widely read liberal blogs.

Here's all you need to know about how influential the YearlyKos convention has become: Five top presidential candidates are going....Analysts say the community of liberal online activists -- the "netroots" -- has become not only a coveted constituency for the left but a legitimate threat to conservatives, who trail Democrats in online campaigning and fundraising.

There will be 200 journalists covering Yearly Kos. The right will be criticizing, but, I suspect, speaking to their echo chamber.

The article also compares blogs in 2007 to those in 2004:

The netroots have come a long way from the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when it was big news that bloggers were given media credentials.

Most of the public didn't even know what a blog was then. We've come a long way, but it's where we're going and what we are going to do that counts.

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