He didn't. But maybe as a writer he now will.
Jay Rosen is chair of the Journalism Department at New York University. His weblog is PressThink.
Transcript of Joe Trippi's Feb. 9th speech, Down from the Mountain.
"Okay, so I rambled a little." (Trippi at his weblog) And don't forget his Q and A with journalist and weblogger Ed Cone.
Wired magazine's Noah Shactman: Trippi: Net Politics Here to Stay
Scott Rosenberg of Salon: "More than anything else Trippi said here, his confession of this 'transparency problem'--his admission that, at its hour of greatest need, the Dean campaign was unable to level with its own online loyalists--seemed to break faith with the campaign's revolutionary aspirations. What good is building a vast open network to route around the existing power structure if you can't use it?...If in the weeks before Iowa, Dean's campaign had told its followers that things weren't going so well, maybe the media would have pounced on his vulnerability; but maybe his troops would have rallied."
Alex Beame, columnist for the Boston Globe, It's game over for Dean's Web dreams.
And as for the Deaniacs — where can they go? The received wisdom is that the power of the Internet mobilized Dean supporters from men and women who had been alienated from politics as usual. But if they really want George Bush out of the White House, they will have to wake up before 8 p.m. on Nov. 2, skip the trip to Starbucks, and pull the old-fashioned lever down at the polling place.
The next election may be held online, but this one won't be
Dan Gillmor, Trippi's bet on Net will pay off far into the future (San Jose Mercury News.)
Steve Gillmor in E-week: "Technologists from all four major campaigns used the O'Reilly conference as a gathering point for discussing shared usage of campaign software in the general election."
Audio file: Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Jay Rosen in, "Gatekeepers No More," panel discussion at the Digital Democracy Teach In.
Kind thanks to Matt Welch for the title of this one.
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