On the heels of the New York Times article on the DC bloggerati, check out our assistant web editor Sam Boyd — along with TAP contributors Matt Yglesias, Spencer Ackerman, and Kriston Capps — in this video on Current TV. They go to coffee shops! They watch primary returns! They blog! They get embarrassed! (Says Sam, “I feel like I’m in some kind of low-rent corporate promotional short, like I should be talking about how great some new widget is.”) Now you know you want to watch…

–The Editors (but not Sam)

Ann Friedman is a columnist for New York magazine’s website and for the Columbia Journalism Review. She also makes pie charts for The Hairpin and Los Angeles magazine. Her work has appeared in ELLE, Esquire, Newsweek, The Observer, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many other outlets. She lives in Los Angeles, but travels so often the best place to find her is online at annfriedman.com. Follow @annfriedman