Markos: It's good to see people organizing and also getting off line in combining outside activism. We need to use this acitivism. We like feedback, and we'd like to interact.

Jerome: It's encouraging to see people from over 40 states. You've no idea of your circle of influence. The smaller traffic on your sites is intimate and can be powerful. You must know how to integrate, building the seedlings. [He discussed techniques of use.] We are an extension of the message machine. Get the info to your local bloggers and they get it out. You win by sharing with a neighbor, small networks within a state. We'll see that influence. Don't underestimate the influence of your blog. You can never tell who is reading it.

After the breakfast, I was honored to be able present matching stuffed armadillos to thank Jerome and Markos. Then, bloggers started introducing themselves, and we could put well-known names to faces from Maryland, Iowa, Boston, Missouri, Virginia, Evanston, Vancouver, Washington, the mother of a blogger from New York, the wife of Mr. Sensitive, and a blogger from Tokyo!

Jerome was an awesome presence at DemFest, moderating a panel on New Media, speaking with Markos at the Bloggers' Breakfast, and patrolling Stubbs Saturday Night.  He talked extensively with many Bloggers, had a nice conversation with Barbara Ann Radnofsky about the US Senate Race in which she is taking on Kay Bailey Hutchison, and chatted at length with Rich Bailey, a member of the Texas Democratic Party's SDEC from Austin, after the Bloggers' Breakfast.

While Jerome told me he was going to turn the stuffed armadillo Barbara Ann gave him over to his five year old, down here in Texas we know better.