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Joan Jett and the Young Republicans
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 01/18/2004 - 05:14(Originally published on my MovableType blog, and moved here for consolidation)
The story going around the blogs right now, http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/003214.html, http://travis-bushman.dailykos.com/story/2004/1/17/23537/3980, and http://www.needlenose.com/pMachineFree2.2.1/comments.php?id=P777_0_1_0 is about a Dean rally at Drake university yesterday, which got crashed by a group of about thirty young Bush supporters. One of them rips a Dean sign and poses for the cameras, another is said to have pushed Joan Jett who responded: You can push me, but don't touch my guitar. (this guitar kills fascists...)
What now?
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 11/28/2003 - 15:46(Originally published on my MovableType blog and moved here for consolidation).
Three years ago, I left a powerful position at a large hedge fund in Connecticut, in hopes of finding a more fulfilling job. Over these three years, I’ve consulted to various financial firms, mostly to keep the cash flow as positive as possible. I’ve also worked with several startups and have a few articles published on a wide array of topics from hedge fund technology to psychology of online behavior to looking at politics online. At the same time, I have dabbled in essays and fiction.
KOS Trackbacks
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 11/25/2003 - 06:46(Originally published on my MovableType blog and moved here for consolidation).
This morning, I noticed that DailyKOS now has a trackback link beneath each story. Is KOS successfully using trackbacks from Scoop?
We shall see.
I guess not. The ping returned:
Ping 'http://www.dailykos.com/tb/2003/11/25/45726/461' failed: HTTP error: 500 Internal Server Error
New York Dean Grassroots Summit
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 11/22/2003 - 07:25(Originally published in my MovableType blog, and consolidated here.)
The Official Blog has comments on the DC Grassroots Summit but I haven't seen any comments on the New York Summit, other than on a mailing list of Dean Rapid Response Network coordinators.
So, here are my comments.
Paul Maslin spoke quite well. I loved his comments about Passionate Patriots. That is what we are, and is a wonderful response to the compassionate conservatives, whom we are finding out to be neither compassionate, nor conservative.
He spoke about a recent poll showing Dean having 23% and Kerry 22% in Massachusettes. I haven't been able to find that poll online, so if anyone can provide a pointer, I would love to see it.
We discussed a Field Organizing Guide with very helpful comments about canvasing and getting out the vote. Fortunately, CTForDean already has a good field plan in place that is doing pretty much what is described in the guide. It was good to see the Connecticut plans validated.
With all of that, I didn't find that I got much for new information from the summit, and I suspect that others who read the blogs and mailing lists regularly, and are involved in organizing, probably didn't get much new information either.
However, what I did, which I consider extremely important, was an opportunity to meet many people face to face that I had developed friendships with online.
Trippi on BOP
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 11/22/2003 - 06:15(Originally written for my MovableType blog and consolidated here.)
Christopher Lydon has written a wonderful post about his interview with Joe Trippi. (http://www.bopnews.com/archives/000017.html#000017)
One of the questions that Lydon asks is, What makes him so sure, I asked, that George W. Bush is not "bloggable"?
Part of the answer comes as The other Republican handicap on the Internet, in the Trippi view, is that Bush and Rove have not even begun to unlearn the ancient rules of campaign command and control
