Bloggers are getting a lot of attention from the mainstream press this week, but attention and respect are two different things. Inside the Fleet Center, it’s clear that they’re still at the bottom of media pecking order. On day one of the convention, expecting to find rows and rows of double-wide chairs filled with double-wide bloggers, hunched over laptops and chugging Diet Coke (“my fellow nerds and I will retire to our nerdery…”), I ascended the escalators and followed signs for Bloggers Boulevard. I kept ascending. And ascending, and ascending, and ascending. Turns out Bloggers Boulevard is just a clever euphemism for The Nosebleeds.
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