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Blogging the 2005 Madison Halloween events on State Street (aka Blog-o-ween) | The Daily Page, Madison, Wisconsin

For the fourth year in a row, the Halloween festivities on State Street in Madison (WI) ended with confrontation, the police clearing the street with pepper spray.

This is also one of the biggest local stories of the year, with what is certain to be a lengthly and contentious debate about the causes of and solutions to the city's continuing Halloween problems yet to come.

The Daiy Page covered much of the weekend's happenings, published:

• Friday evening photo gallery
• Friday night report
• early Sunday morning report
• early Sunday morning photo gallery
• breaking report about the use of pepper spray
• five short video clips
• weekend previews in the October 28 edition of Isthmus
  

This kind of event is tailor-made for today's era of blogs, Flickr, and citizen journalism.

Attendees and observers of Madison Halloween 2005 are publishing reports about their experiences, photos from the weekend, and commentary about the event at an astonishing rate. There's already a wealth of blog posts and photo galleries online (much of it captured superbly in ongoing coverage from Dane101). (more)

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