If you’re a political junkie but couldn’t take the week off to trek to Denver, have no fear. With journalists, delegates and bloggers toting minicams, and multiple live feeds emanating from the floor, the coronation of Barack Obama and Joe Biden will certainly be the most-covered in convention history.

If you’re a political junkie but couldn’t take the week off to trek to Denver, have no fear. With journalists, delegates and bloggers toting minicams, and multiple live feeds emanating from the floor, the coronation of Barack Obama and Joe Biden will certainly be the most-covered in convention history.

But, as this video from the Chicago 1968 Democratic Convention reminds, more cameras doesn’t necessarily mean more drama. Still, it will be interesting to see what moments do get captured now that every just about every attendee is a potential live broadcaster.

The Democratic National Committee is streaming the procedings starting at 3 p.m. Mountain time on its own site via a deal with Level 3. UStream is the official live Webcaster from The Big Tent, a two-story temporary structure where bloggers unable to get convention floor passes will be penned in for the next four days. Craiglist founder Craig Newmark is already checking in.

The people over at the Poynter Institute have put together this Twitter stream of journalists covering the convention. It’s got a good mix of traditional newspaper and broadcast folks as well as bloggers/new media types.

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• Barack Obama: I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.
• John McCain has picked his running mate (announcement tomorrow) and a theory in Denver is that it’s ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman. If true, is this a good choice?
• The social-networking strategy that took an obscure senator Barack Obama to the doors of the White House.

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