by Jacob Soboroff

Greetings from Personal Democracy Forum 2008, the conference about how technology is changing politics. WESUN Senior Supervisory Producer Davar Iran Ardalan and I rounded up some movers and shakers here yesterday and invited them to sit with us in our temporary NPR mini-studio — aka a backstage dressing room at Jazz at Lincoln Center — to share their thoughts on the conference and more. You'll notice Davar recording the audio for a segment coming up on Weekend Edition Sunday!

Yesterday afternoon Davar and I sat down with Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, MySpace IMPACT Director Lee Brenner and blogger Matt Stoller of OpenLeft.com for a 10-minute conversation about how what they do is literally changing politics as we know it — and maybe public radio too. NPR's very own Andy Carvin makes a cameo appearance too. He streamed our entire chat live andycarvin.com on the internet yesterday with his Qik camera.