Flickr Photo: tankgirlThe big DNC Convention kicks off this week in Denver, CO. While I'm super jealous of my colleagues who are there, I also hate crowds. Luckily, there is a bevy of social media at my fingertips to help me feel like I'm right in the midst of the action. Here are just a smattering of ways to follow the action from your own desk chair:

• Tweetscan: following all tweets with "DNC" in them
• YouTube: videos tagged "dnc2008"
• Technorati: blog posts tagged "dnc2008"
• Flickr: images tagged "dnc2008"
• FriendFeed: what all my friends are saying about the DNC

I especially love the pictures in Flickr: I feel like you get such a different representation of what's going on. Here's a slideshow of these DNC2008 pics:

So tell me, how are YOU tracking the DNC this year?

(P.S. - looking forward to doing the same for the RNC and comparing notes!)