Before post olympic blues have a minute to kick in, politics wakes up a bit with the Democratic Convention taking place this week in Denver.

As well as tuning into the news channels and MSNBC’s live feed online (who have just announced a new show fronted by the cutest butch – ok I’ll stop swooning for the moment) I will be reading more than a few of the blogs who are credentialled to cover the convention.

First on the list is Pam Spaulding and her team at Pam’s Houseblend, where I have been a fan for a long time. When Pam received word that she would receive credentials for herself and team of bloggers to cover the blog she set about raising money to cover their expenses. The bloggers at the houseblend are from all sections of the lgbt community and Pam as an Afican American lesbian woman blogger has carved a niche in the coverage of the democratic campaign and also lgbt rights and other social issues. Not all Pam’s team could afford to attend the convention so she had a fundraising campaign where I and many others chipped in. The blog was covered in an must read article on how blogs have finally arrived (again says I?!) in last weekend’s New York Times. Expect lots of coverage of the protests, caucus meets as well as commentary on the prime time set speeches and other gossip from Pam, Russ, Terrance and Autumn and other blenders.

Andy Towle from Towleroad is also covering the convention as an accredited blogger – convention posts can be read here. Now I know that Andy has his fans in Ireland (he even got nominated in error for an Irish Blog Award!) but the Catholic Defence League were not too happy that the mix of lgbt politics, pop culture and jock straps got a Democratic nod. Andy directed the Church to more urgent issues in their own back yard and is blogging from Denver this week.

The full list of credentialed blogs can be accessed here – other ones of note are Bitch Phd, Disability bloggers Disaboom,  and Firedoglake. Have fun surfing!