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Joe Trippi Interviewed

Posted by michael on from the this-internet-thing-could-be-big dept.

MikeCapone writes "Mother Jones and Alternet interviewed Joe Trippi,the guy behind the Howard Dean campaign ('the candidate lost but the campaign won'). He has a new book out, 'The Revolution will not be Televised' (click for excerpt), about how the Internet is radically changing the way politics is done. Choice quote from the interview: 'The open-source stuff was amazing. I mean, 650,000 brains are a lot smarter than the 50 [...] They spotted stuff that we didn't see, came up with ideas we wouldn't have thought of, and made the campaign a lot stronger. Just like how open-source works in running software -- it's the difference between Linux and Microsoft.'"

2 of 365 comments (clear)

  1. Howard Dean for President!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll vote for Dean come November.

  2. What Rights? by Ken@WearableTech · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's it, Slashdot is officially a left wing news site. What does this have to do with my rights online? Why is a technology site posting stories from ultra-left Mother Jones?

    Why is slashdot turning into a political site? I don't what to read about left or right politics when I'm trying to read about technology.