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Trippi 1.1

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Trippi 1.1
: When Joe Trippi came to ETech word seeped here and there that he’d registered a new domain for The Next Thing: ChangeForAmerica.com. I confirmed that he’d registered it but found nothing there.

Now Micah Sifry links us to the first post in the Trippi blog:

This is where I intend to keep, in my own small way, my part in the changing of America and our politics going….

I am still trying to figure out what I am actually going to do with the rest of my life, so far its always been about changing or messing with something bigger than me.

The one thing I know I want to do, is continue to do my part to build a community with a mission of changing our country for the better.

So here starts a new blog….

It’s more about Trippi than the movement.

No one is going to change America for you. You have to work for the change you want — and you have to get other Americans to join your cause.

Change for America is my attempt to continue to just that — so join in, comment away, and lets continue the fight to rid our country of the Bush administration (the first step to real change).

So it’s about anger and change, still.

I don’t have much in tech support as of yet, but over time I hope this blog will be a lot better than it is today — kind of reminds me of those days 13 months or so ago — when there were only a few of us and we started the ugliest blog in America — the Call to Action blog. It helped to launch something special, hopefully the Change for America Blog humble as it is will launch something special as well.

Thank you for reading and participating.

The Next American Revolution is only just beginning.

And so it starts with technology.

But change for what, to what, and why?

If I were Dean and the Deaniacs, I’d be upset that Trippi is already starting a competitor before the body is even cold. There’s still a very open question of what is going to happen to DeanSpace.

The movement is breaking up….

12 responses to “Trippi 1.1”

  1. Jim Treacher Avatar
    Jim Treacher

    “I am still trying to figure out what I am actually going to do with the rest of my life”
    Yeah, me too, jackass. I don’t have quite the same donor base, though. Gotta give you that!

  2. hugh macleod Avatar
    hugh macleod

    Oy. I went to check it out. Saw the tagline “One blog for real change”. Made me not want to read the rest.
    When I hear the words “real change” I reach for my sanctometer…

  3. Seth Finkelstein Avatar
    Seth Finkelstein

    “The movement is breaking up….”
    Happens to a lot of them. At least, in this case, nobody is dead or in jail. Even the amounts of money skimmed are very small potatoes, compared to, e.g. Enron.
    Let’s just not have E-KoolAid 2.0 (which I fear will happen), and things will hae worked out.

  4. billg Avatar
    billg

    Movements don’t win elections, Mr. Trippi. By definition, movements demarcate themselves from the majority. They adopt an “us versus them” mindset that builds internal comraderie at the cost of alienating the external majority.
    Movements, that is, have membership standard, that serve to keep people out. That’s stupid politics.
    The only way political movements can change how the U.S. is governed is by allowing themselves to be coopted by mainstream politicians.
    The Dean campaign was doomed the moment it allowed itself to be perceived as a single-issue movement, rather than a broad-based honest-to-God real political campaign. It has never reflected the thinking of a majority of Democrats, much less the entire voting public.

  5. KMK Avatar
    KMK

    I don’t buy the what am I going to do with my life routine. Trippi is shrewd and calculating. People in the comments support his American revolution spin all the way. It will be interesting to see if their motto last man standing gets the vote has any poll power behind it.

  6. Jon Kimball Avatar
    Jon Kimball

    I’m surprised that the domain name “ChangeFor America.com” was still available. Looks as if Trippi just registered it recently. My guess is the domain was recently transferred into Trippi’s name (which would change the original registration date). Maybe it’s not important, but I’d like to know when it was first registered.

  7. Seth Finkelstein Avatar
    Seth Finkelstein

    I have a .com domain list as of January 21. ChangeForAmerica.com didn’t exist then. So he did register it recently.
    Domain registration speculation has cooled-off since the bubble :-)

  8. mark Avatar
    mark

    What will be really telling is if (or when?) Trippi adds something like a “hit the bat for change!” sign for potential donors.

  9. tom Avatar
    tom

    that’s what it is – it’s a blog for REAL change… Like coinage. If Atrios can get a ton of people to donate $.18 to someone for a hefty grand total, why can’t Trippi rack up some dollars, too?
    [/sarcasm]

  10. Dan Herzlich Avatar
    Dan Herzlich

    Excellent analysis, Jeff.
    Why does change require fighting? Why all the anger? Who’s the enemy?
    It look likes he’s already putting out a plea for free tech support. If anybody works for his blog make sure you get decent compensation.
    Oh, by the I’m going to cure cancer and put a Democrat in the Whitehouse with MY blog. Aren’t I great?
    DH – You say you want a revolution, you’d better change your mind instead. JL

  11. MK Avatar
    MK

    I thought that Bush Jr. WAS change-from the last “status quo”. Now Trippi wants to change again? And again, and again, and again, and again, and……..

  12. Sandy P. Avatar
    Sandy P.

    I agree w/MK. Mr. Trippi doesn’t want to change America as much as he wants to go back to when his side held the reigns.
    Unfortunately for Mr. Trippi, I don’t. I grew up w/his side in power. The 60s boomers have been on center stage for almost 45 years, it’s time they start moving toward the curtains.
    And I really don’t think they understand that yet. It’s not about them anymore.