Meeting UP
Like Mitch, I went to a Howard Dean Meetup last night, and you should when you can. Similar to Mitch’s experience, I found myself in a room full of angry but optimistic people–although our meeting...
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Moveon Primary Monday Morning Quarterbacking Governor Dean probably made progress yesterday on Meet the Press. But something has been bothering me all day and I finally realized what it is. Election...
View ArticleGovernment Producers Council
Jock Gill says we need to redefine the electorate as active producers of good government, not passive consumers of government services. (Jock finds the customer label as pejorative as consumer. He’d...
View ArticleSteal This Campaign, Redux
This is a repeat of an earlier blog, inspired by Jim Moore’s opinion, repeated most recently on 7/24 that we can raise a billion dollars for the Dean campaign: A billion dollars for Dean, slight...
View ArticleThe Eagle has Landed
Zack Rosen is a brilliant young man who represents everything that’s right about the Dean campaign. He’s a student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at...
View ArticleAsking what we can do for our candidate
As I’ve said before, the donors to any political campaign own their candidate. In the age of Broadcast Politics, the donors were the big donors–corporations and their masters–and we see now how that...
View ArticleStudents of Dean
Josh Koenig and I are headed for Burlington Vermont for the week. We’re the first installment in the IT Nirvana program, under which a pair of geek volunteers spends a week with the campaign to help...
View ArticleThe Staff of Life
Startups are fun. They attract people who want more than a job, they want meaning. As I suggested months ago, we all want to be of consequence. When I catalyzed the Dynamac project in 1987, we had...
View ArticleThis Hive is Buzzing
It couldn’t happen without the kids. The Dean Phenomenon is impossible by any conventional measure of how enterprises function, how work is completed and how power is transferred. The campaign’s...
View ArticleDeja Vu All Over
Dana Blankenhorn, via email: Two words. Dwight Eisenhower. A lot of people are going to misread this history over the next few months. They will write that the “moderate” Clark is going to overwhelm...
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