Trippi's new book

Daily Kos Staff

Sunday July 18, 2004 · 10:36 PM PDT

2004/07/18 · 22:36

I received my review copy of Joe Trippi's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised about two weeks ago, but didn't get a chance to break it open until this weekend. (Well, except for an ego-driven search for my name in the book's index.)

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It's not the tell-all book that many people (including me) wished it had been. It's not in Trippi's interest to burn bridges by spilling all. Rather, it's a polemic on the sorts of themes that we discuss here on dKos all the time -- the increasing ineffectiveness of television advertising and the rise of participatory Democracy.

And central to his argument is the notion that Dean's Internet effort wasn't an "Internet bubble", but the most important legacy of the campaign. I was partly there as Trippi formulated much of his initial strategies (Jerome was a far bigger influence in the campaign), and I was always struck at how easily Trippi grasped the blogosphere and its potential in electoral politics.

Trippi single-handedly gave the blogosphere political cred. And for that reason alone I will always consider myself a Trippi loyalist (as much as I may have liked Dean).

I still haven't finished reading the book, but I do plan on discussing it in greater depth later this week. I'll probably finish it on the plane to Boston (wednesday).

Trippi's new book

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