(just saw this now, sorry didn’t followup earlier…)

i’m the program chair for GSP East, and i must admit i hadn’t seen the language before that O’Reilly was using for the media pass requests. my guess is that’s probably boilerplate that was borrowed from earlier times when they were a little more stringent on the online vs offline reporting policy.

these days, i know they may still have RSS readership rqmts for blogger / media passes, but i’m pretty sure they do make them available to notable bloggers. certainly as program chair i’ve expressed my opinion that online media and print media are equally notable / respectable.

apologies for any impressions otherwise. if you’d like to followup, drop me a note or let me know at the conference.

regards,

- dave mcclure
program chair, graphing social patterns
http://graphingsocial.com