Well, whereas it first seemed we were not credentialed to cover the DNCC in Boston (bloggers began receiving credentials the first week in July), now it seems we were. But as you can read from Michele’s description here, they are “perimeter” credentials, meaning we can fly to Boston, get hotel rooms, take busses or cabs to the Fleet Center, pass through security, and then have no access to the building or the standard media center.

Ummm … no thanks. Besides, as Lileks noted, the real action is in the local bars anyway.

For some reason, the ability to stand outside the Fleet Center is not the “same access as the traditional media” promised on the original DNCC 2004 application and information pages (none of which, by the way, exist online anymore, either at the DNCC site or as cached pages, so I can’t send you there for the proof n’ pudding).

So, while it was nice to be invited, without the ability to experience the convention inside-out, it’s likely neither Michele nor I will travel to Boston (on two-weeks notice), although we do have the ability to send “colleagues,” so we will likely try to extend our passes to other members of the Command Post family.

We’ll keep you posted.

One last question: Did anybody else get site-only credentials a week after everyone else?