The day after: Quoted

The day after: Quoted
: I was quoted in Farhad Manjoo’s story on Dean in Salon this morning:

“We all learned lessons in Iowa,” says Jeff Jarvis. “Howard Dean learned the biggest one — stop being an asshole. We learned about the insular nature of this medium — we learned not to blow up the bubble, not to put too much emphasis on what this thing can do. It can do miraculous, wonderful things, but it can’t win an election. It can change the world, but it can’t win an election. What we learned in Iowa was not that blogs didn’t help Dean but that they didn’t help him in the way he needed.”

I meant to say “ass” not “asshole,” but I knew as soon as I said it, that was a quotable quote. And it’s right.

: Howard Kurtz writes the right story after Iowa: The pundits were all wrong. (And I’m happy that he quoted my post asking whether blogging hurt Dean.)

: If I were Larry Lessig, I’d have an assistant posting the articles where I’m quoted. But I’m not Larry Lessig and I don’t have an assistant so I have no choice but to come off like an egotistical ~~ass~~ asshole myself.

: Since I’m not a paying subscriber to Salon, I had to endure an ad to see my quote and there’s some poetic justice that I was forced to see the MoveOn ad for its ad against Bush — “the ad the Bush Administration doesn’t want you to see.”

Hmmmm. What’s the Bush Administration doing to stop you from seeing the commercial. CBS did a lot. But I don’t know what the government did.

2 responses to “The day after: Quoted”

billg

January 21, 2004

I’ve never understood exactly how blogs were supposed to get all those Dean voters to their caucuses?
Blogs are great, but they are passive. People come to blogs, blogs don’t go to people.
You can’t go door-to-door and hand out blogs. You can’t buy 30 seconds at 7:00 p.m. during the local “Friends” rerun for a blog post. A blog won’t telephone people and make a pitch. You can’t tell a blog to take a van and drive across town to pick up six folks who need a lift to the caucus.

efcone

January 21, 2004

jeff, just click thru the salon ad like everybody else.
billg, the idea of an internet campaign goes way beyond weblogs. this complexity has not yet fully made its way into the mainstream discussion of the phenomenon. blogs are a way for the campaign to communicate with itself and the rest of the world. the door to door part, the fliers and posters and rallies and pollworkers and election day drivers, etc, is perhaps publicized via blogs but the heavy lifting is done by organizing tools that are cheap and available to any volunteer with a computer.

billg

January 21, 2004

I’ve never understood exactly how blogs were supposed to get all those Dean voters to their caucuses?
Blogs are great, but they are passive. People come to blogs, blogs don’t go to people.
You can’t go door-to-door and hand out blogs. You can’t buy 30 seconds at 7:00 p.m. during the local “Friends” rerun for a blog post. A blog won’t telephone people and make a pitch. You can’t tell a blog to take a van and drive across town to pick up six folks who need a lift to the caucus.

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efcone

January 21, 2004

jeff, just click thru the salon ad like everybody else.
billg, the idea of an internet campaign goes way beyond weblogs. this complexity has not yet fully made its way into the mainstream discussion of the phenomenon. blogs are a way for the campaign to communicate with itself and the rest of the world. the door to door part, the fliers and posters and rallies and pollworkers and election day drivers, etc, is perhaps publicized via blogs but the heavy lifting is done by organizing tools that are cheap and available to any volunteer with a computer.

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