YearlyKos, a political convention for American liberal political activists, organized by readers and writers of "Daily Kos", an influential American political blog, which took place in Chicago from August 2 through August 5, 2007, hosted a panel discussion, on August 2, by Christy Hardin Smith of "Firedoglake", Jeralyn Merritt ("TalkLeft"), and Marcy Wheeler ("The Next Hurrah") on their experiences of "live-blogging" the Libby trial, moderated by Merritt; the panel also included Sheldon L. Snook, Chief of Staff to the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, who was "the court official in charge of news media at the Libby trial."