Blogging the White House beat

The first ever blogging from a White House briefing:

This post, it seems, marks the first blog from a White House press briefing. We're sitting in the fourth row waiting between the 9:45 a.m. gaggle and the 12:30 p.m. briefing. Cameramen and reporters are milling around, reading novels, newspapers, and stepping outside for a smoke. Fox News's Carl Cameron just passed by. All-in-all, it's been a remarkably uneventful morning--which, we're told, is what most mornings are like at the White House.

And here I sit at home ...