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Rather than paste the entire invite into this post, let me just remind any Chicago-area readers that I am a host for next week’s Gala Fundraiser in honor of Governor Dean. It will be from 6:30pm to 8pm at the Civic Opera House, and Governor Dean will be in attendance. Tickets are $150/person or $250/couple.…

I downloaded iTunes for Windows last week, and share the enthusiasm expressed elsewhere. It is by far the easiest to use and most sophisticated music management application for Windows. I’ve been a MusicMatch user for about four years, and always found it to be a little too user-unfriendly. Some things that make it so good:…

I think David Weinberger’s thoughts on what happens when blogs get “really big” are right on. Lots of meat on this post; his thinking is consistent with a lot of what I’ve been thinking regarding blog communications and where things are headed. Yesterday was a good example of how my blog has changed my communications…

I want to let people in comments refer to other comments, and then have the plug-in auto-link to those comments. The idea would be to let people say: In comment16, Rick said… The plug-in would look for strings that say “commentxxx” where xxx is the number assigned to the comment, and then auto-link the string…

Jeremy Zawodny has discovered that the only good time to clean up your inbox is when you’re on a plane. He’s totally right — the only time I manage to delete the vast majority of my inbox is when I’m on the road. It used to drive my old boss nuts — he never had…

How often do you get a phone call asking you to spend a weekend at the headquarters of a U.S. Presidential candidate? If you’re like me, it’s not exactly a daily occurrence. So when the Dean campaign called a month ago and asked if I had a few free days to spare, I eagerly booked…

“We are the great grass-roots campaign of the modern era, made of mouse pads, shoe leather, and hope.” — Howard Dean, June 22, 2003, The Great American Restoration So much has been written about the “grassroots” nature of this campaign that I’d begun to not even hear the word “grassroots”. To me it had become…

Check out Timothy Sipples’ new DeanSpace site, Pilots for Dean. It’s a clearinghouse for pilots who want to offer seats on their planes to go to campaign-related events. Very, very good idea. (And I’m just a bit giddy at the prospect that Timothy is in Wheeling, Illinois, less than an hour away from DuPage County!…

I’m a bit caught up on sleep after getting back from Burlington. For the first time, the fact that I’ve been out of college nearly 11 years is painfully obvious to this body. I don’t think there’s much to add to my comments from Saturday, other than to reinforce the awe that the staff feels…

I’ve now been in Burlington for 24 hours, and already I’m adopting the peculiar patterns that appear to be standard: I’ve slept less than 5 hours. I’ve worked on the blog (look for “Most recent comments” and “Most freqent commenters” coming soon), had some far-reaching discussions about “what’s next?” and been an outsider’s voice sharing…