Here's what I am looking at:

• Take action on Net Neutrality.
  
  
• The refs at this World Cup, suck, suck, and suck. And the games haven't been much better. This is easily the worst World Cup I have ever seen, with the possible exception of Italia '90. I hope the USA ends up participating in Copa Ameirca in '08, because this tournament has been a huge disappointment. I feel cheated, and not just because America isn't playing anymore.
  
  
• You may have noticed that I have become a consultant in a new company, along with Bondad and thereisnospoon. Just so everyone knows, I will disclose every campaign I end up working on. I have been giving out free advice to campaigns for years, and so I decided that it might be good to actually get paid for my advice on how to reach out to the netroots and how to run interesting and informative polls. Of course, it remains to be seen if I actually end up getting paid. J
  
  
• Speaking of new jobs, Peter Daou has suspended blogging to work with Hillary Clinton. Peter will be sorely missed online.
  
  
• Citing new poll numbers, The Agonist reports that Texas Republicans might be in trouble in the House. Speaking of which, John Courage, has a diary up on MyDD.
  
  
• Taylor Marsh has been doing outstanding work on Duncan Hunter's attacks against John Murtha. She also has a diary up on MyDD on the subject, but make sure you visit her blog to read the rest. As a side note, I think that Taylor may have the longest, continually running progressive website out there. She's been live since 1995!
  
  
• Digg has added a politics section. Could be interesting and important.
  
  
• Tony Snow has fit nicely into the Bush administrations totalitarian mindset, where they believe they can suspend any Constitutional rights they like because we are all supposedly perpetually under imminent danger of being killed by terrorists. Think Progress has the video.
  
  
• Maryscott O'Conner has a great call to action.
  
  
• I have a poll in the extended entry: Amnesty for insurgents?

This is an open thread.

I know we've got a lot of politics pros out there. Anyone ever go to this?

http://www.ipdi.org/politicsonline/

I was wondering if it was useful, interesting, good for networking, good for learning, more fun than the average trip to DC, etc. I know that IPDI is run by Carol Darr, who said dumb things about bloggers, but most of the speakers at this year's conference are bloggers, so perhaps her opinions are not dominant.

Any advice would be helpful. Trying to figure out if this would be good for me, as a consultant.

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