Response to Trippi's ''Afterword''

Hey readers,
well, honestly I was not very surprised when I read Trippi's ''Afterword'' because I actually noticed the change and the snowballing importance of the internet. The older I got the more the internet was around me. One could have not not realized the changes.
Trippi...I admire him...he did so much for Dean. He pretty much lived for the campaign. The unfortunate thing is that the entire internet and blogging thing started to develop when Trippi was involved in the Dean campaign. If Trippi had had more possibilities in terms of new media tools he and especially Dean could have made it further. Right, there were things like DeanTV, a pre-youtube format, and it in fact did reach a, for 2004, broad audience due to Trippi's brilliancy. But there were still not that many internet users which Trippi would have needed.
I am of the opinion that if Trippi had decided to run the 2008 elections he would have succeeded. The mix of his genius and the large number of new media tools would have enabled him to really hit it big!

Sebastian