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Yesterday I went off in one of my infrequent testy fits of pique about the irrelevant, juvenile side of the blogosphere, because I don't like to waste my time thinking about what two Democrat bloggers think of each other. Nothing could concern me less at this particular moment in our national history.

But today, I'd like to remind people that there's another side to the blogosphere -- the part that gets things done, and gets noticed. And apropos of that is the forum that's being hosted by the Heritage Foundation on October 4:

Government 2.0: How Bloggers Claimed Their First Major Policy Victory

I've heard a lot of good things about Coburn/Obama, mostly positive from the blogosphere and heartening to fiscal conservatives, because of its potential to shed some light on how the government spends our money and let ordinary people have unprecedented access to how it happens. But I've also heard some cautionary notes from email friends who suggest that the process of making this legislation actually *work* (with or against?) the fibrous tumor that the Federal contracting process sometimes resembles is going to be harder than people expect. And I've even heard some echoes of warnings against "blogger triumphalism" that Glenn Reynolds once cautioned against, insofar as that triumphalist spirit may have led the collective blogosphere to get its head a little far out in front of its skis with this piece of legislation.

For example, I have it on fairly good authority that there will be people from several D.C. firms such as Eagle Eye in attendance at Heritage, and they will be armed with notepads and questions, and undoubtedly a lot of their own thoughts.

It's certainly an auspicious occasion, and I hope our D.C. Editors and Directors have taken notice.