Afternoon View - Netroots Nation

Netroots Nation 2010 officially opened this morning and of course, interwebs access here is completely borked, hence my radio silence for the last few hours. Paid access in the hotel rooms is extremely slow and the free wifi in the convention center just isn't working at all. Several thousand very frustrated bloggers and digital activists are wearing out their refresh fingers or trying to score access to somebody's phone signal. I don't know whose signal I'm on right now, but thank you LeftyGirlPDX, whoever you are.