Edited and updated

Rick Orlov in the Daily News notes that both the L.A. City Council and the county's Board of Supervisors shut down for the week because a majority of members are in Boston for the Democratic convention. The swarm from City Hall includes Mayor Jim Hahn, council president Alex Padilla, mayoral candidate Bernard Parks and Antonio Villaraigosa, who will have the highest profile as co-chair of the Kerry campaign and a speaker from the dais. Councilman Eric Garcetti is going to write about his experiences for the Hollywood Independent. From the board of supes, Gloria Molina is a national committeewoman for the Democrats and Zev Yaroslavsky and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke are also there.

Today is also the day of the convention blogger in the national media. The Wall Street Journal (in a story free online) mentions and has photos of Matt Welch of Reason and UCLA junior Ezra Klein of Pandagon.net. Klein and NYU's JayRosen are also in Howard Kurtz's piece in the Washington Post. The New York Times has a story, and AP has a sampling of the blogs. The Ventura County Star has a couple of delegates blogging on its site, and a site called ConventionBloggers has also started up to pull everything together.

Also: The LA Weekly has three bloggers writing from the scene: Marc Cooper, Harold Meyerson and Joshuah Bearman. KPCC's Larry Mantle had a couple of bloggers on "AirTalk" this morning, but they weren't local and weren't very impressive. At Poynter.org, Jonathan Dube of CyberJournalist.net rounds up online info about the convention and bloggers. The L.A. Times has Lisa Stone gathering a roundup of blog entries, and Arianna Huffington is blogging from Boston as well. Going against the grain, Sacramento Bee blogger Dan Weintraub writes that he'll be posting almost not at all.

Previously on L.A. Observed: It's a small blogger world