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[Ian’s Messy Desk]

Four Handshakes. America’s Corporate Boards are Separated by Just Four Handshakes, U-M Study ShowsMuch like the Hollywood association game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, corporate America is an interlocking network of company board directorships separated by just a few handshakes, say researchers at the University of Michigan Business School. In a study of the connectedness of nearly 7,700 board directors…

Ed Helms of The Daily Show shares the joys of multimedia with the masses in this week’s “Digital Watch”. Or not, as the case may be. Particularly funny? Reading out the incomprehensible real.com URL (or “web thingy”) to download Real Player, downloading the Real Player (“Great! Only 92% left to go!”) and buffering (“What the…

Just updated the press page, courtesy of “A Dean Supporter” (no name or contact info, unfortunately). Both articles are “old” – one from the May 22, 2002 Christian Science Monitor and one from August 24, 2001 in the Portsmouth Herald. A few random details that emerge – that he’s an accomplished guitarist, and that he completed…

Some good quotes from attendees at the DNC meeting: “He was the star of the show,” said a surprised Tom Lakin, a Democratic National Committee member from a town near East Alton in southern Illinois.Dean’s appearance Friday—along with an appearance last month before a dinner for NARAL Pro-Choice America—earned him lots of political points from…

(cross-posted to both my personal blog and my Dean campaign blog) Howard Dean gave a magnificent speech last night at the DNC Winter Meeting. (You can watch the video yourself – I’ve got a video archive of his speeches here; you can also read some of the post-speech reactions from the press clipping page.) And…

Just read the lyrics to the JXL/Elvis tune “A little less conversation” (Dean’s entrance tune at the DNC meeting) and you have to believe someone picked it deliberately: A little less conversation, a little more action pleaseAll this aggravation ain’t satisfactioning meA little more bite and a little less barkA little less fight and a…

A new twist on “fly the friendly skies“ [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

Gov. Dean was the last presenter among four candidates (Lieberman, Gephardt, and Moseley-Braun were the others) at Day 1 of the DNC Winter Meeting. (Go to the video page for the link to C-Span.) In an article in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch titled “Dean scores a homerun“, former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson is quoted as saying:…

A few years back, I worked with a guy who I came to like. The barometer by which I judge co-workers is whether I’d want to work with them again… and in his case, he’d be the first guy I’d call. He’s brilliant – by far, the smartest person I’ve worked with. Scary smart. And…