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If you’re looking for downloadable flyers about Howard Dean, head over to deanaction.net – where the campaign has put together three PDFs suitable for printing and distribution. I’ll be sharing a PowerPoint template I put together shortly for use in your own house parties…

The Union Leader out of New Hampshire reports that Governor Dean has picked up ground, pulling into a statistical dead heat among likely voters in NH. Less obvious but just as interesting – the same poll had favorable/unfavorable rankings for each candidate: Kerry: 69/7Dean: 40/9Lieberman: 51/28Gephardt: 50/19Dean narrowed the gap by picking up a lot…

Any fan of West Wing will recall the episode titled Take out the trash. The term taking out the trash is a euphemism for burying news items that are embarassing to the administration by casually mentioning them on a Friday afternoon – so that the effect on the administration in the news is blunted by…

Cisco Buys Linksys – Moves Into The Home. In a bit of a surprise, Cisco today announced that they’re buying Linksys for $500 million. Linksys is the leader in wireless routers for homes by a long shot, so this lets Cisco move down the chain to a more consumer level offering. Cisco has recently been…

I’m listening to Ari Fleischer’s briefing, and he just reeled off a bunch of stats that are supposed to impress us about the “coalition of the willing”: more than 35 countries more than 1 billion people every race, religion, ethnicity etc.Here’s the problem in citing those stats: Of the 35 countries, only two – ONLY…

If you’re interested in a first-person account from Baghdad, check out “Where is Raed?“. I’m disappointed that I haven’t heard more of this unvarnished information through the major media, but grateful that this site exists. Check it out.

(As you read this, keep in mind that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an employee of the I.T. department.) Cell phone rang at 9:45pm. It’s one of our salesmen. He’s on the road, prepping for a demo tomorrow morning. “What’s wrong?” I ask. “When I press my ‘k’ key, the number…

That was Brobeck’s tag line, part of its much-talked about but under-analyzed branding strategy. Until now, that is. Deborah McMurray, one of my co-authors on the cleverly titled The Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet, dissects Brobeck’s brand and the repercussions of its dissolution on the blog devoted to our book. It’s great reading.

The video archive page is updated and includes Governor Dean’s speech to the California Democratic Party on Saturday.

A first-hand write-up from an attendee at the California Democratic Party convention: But the most amazing part was the finale, with a fiery Dean pounding the podium: I want my country back! I don’t want to listen to fundamentalist preachers anymore!When Dean uttered this last line, the whole place went nuts. Utter pandemonium. It was…