LIVE from Providence: Netroots Nation news roundup for Friday, June 8th, 2012

As of this evening, we are now more than halfway through Net­roots Nation 2012. Here’s a roundup of some of the arti­cles the tra­di­tion­al media has pub­lished about the con­ven­tion since yesterday:

• WRNI, Prov­i­dence’s local Nation­al Pub­lic Radio (NPR) sta­tion, has a report on Net­roots Nation’s open­ing day.
• WPRI, the city’s CBS affil­i­ate, talked to the cre­ator of Water­Fire, Prov­i­dence’s crit­i­cal­ly-acclaimed art phe­nom­e­non, about this Sat­ur­day’s spe­cial per­for­mance in hon­or of Net­roots Nation 2012.
• The Wash­ing­ton Post has devot­ed its Fri­day Trail Mix to cov­er­ing the hap­pen­ings at Net­roots Nation. The Post also has a good write­up of Eliz­a­beth War­ren’s speech dur­ing the lunch keynote ear­li­er today.
• Ari Mel­ber remind­ed read­ers of The Nation that Net­roots Nation is livestream­ing all of its keynotes and most of its panels.
• USA Today’s Martha Moore has filed a dis­patch on Net­roots Nation that Gan­nett is car­ry­ing nationally.
• The Prov­i­dence Jour­nal has pub­lished sev­er­al short sto­ries about Net­roots Nationover the last twen­ty-four hours: 
  • Mass. Sen­ate hope­ful Eliz­a­beth War­ren elec­tri­fies Net­roots crowd
  • At Net­roots, it’s the Apple way or the highway
  • Planned Par­ent­hood Fed­er­a­tion pres­i­dent speaks to blog­gers and activists at Net­roots Nation
  • May­or Taveras wel­comes Net­roots Nation, dubs par­tic­i­pants ‘most pro­gres­sive minds in the nation’
  • Amer­i­can pro­gres­sives gath­er in Prov­i­dence for Net­roots Nation

Tomor­row will be the con­ven­tion’s third and final full day. Three keynotes and three sets of pan­els are sched­uled, includ­ing Revi­tal­iz­ing State and Local Blog­ging, which will be facil­i­tat­ed by yours tru­ly at 12 PM Pacif­ic Time. The pan­el will be livestreamed — please plan on tun­ing in from home if you can.