Dean campaign notes from Gary Wolf

Cory Doctorow 3:34 am Mon Oct 27, 2003

Gary Wolf, an old Wired hand, has been working on a major story about the Dean campaign's use of the Internet. He's taking running notes on his blog as he organizes the peice — it's fascinating stuff. Particularily interesting is the "Retroactive Manifesto for the Dean Campaign," identifying the principles that have worked best so far.

ALLOW THE ENDS TO CONNECT (David Weinberger)
This is the principle that resulted in the massive Meet-Up momentum, with 128,878 sign-ups as of tonight. What goes on at all the meet-ups? The Dean campaign has only the vaguest idea. “They are allowing the ends to connect without any centralized control from the campaign,” says David. “The goal is not necessarily to have messages flowing up and down. Democracy is supposed to be about people talking with each other about what matters to them and then organizing to get the things they want. If all you have a is a TV set and a ballot box, that's a shadow of democracy.”

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