{"id":1484,"date":"2003-07-21T19:08:04","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T09:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/22\/geeking-about-dean\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:32:00","slug":"geeking-about-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/21\/geeking-about-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeking about Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really wonder if there are people on the Howard Dean campaign<\/a> who are tied in enough to the “geek” side of the blogosphere to realize how big of a deal it could be that Dean is getting mentioned prominently by Doc Searls<\/a>, Robert Scoble<\/a>, and Tom Negrino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Much as Robert likes to claim he’s got all of 18 readers (which is about 12 more than I’ve got, I think), he, Doc, and Tom and his wife Dori Smith are some of the bigger names in the weblogging world. Robert’s one of the most well-known Microsoft<\/a> webloggers and a Longhorn evangilist; Doc, among many other things, is the senior editor for Linux Journal<\/a>; and Tom and Dori are Mac fans and authors of several<\/a> technical<\/a> books<\/a>. Big names, getting Dean’s name out into tech circles. Could be a very<\/em> good thing. If nothing else, it’s more exposure, but given the general tech bent of all three weblogs, Doc’s interest in copyright and media issues and Dean’s appearance on Lawrence Lessig<\/a>‘s blog last week, I can’t help but think that there are possibilities here.<\/p>\n

Make sure that Dean is kept current on some of the “geekier” political battles and can articulate his stances on those issues clearly (one of the issues I’ve read about the Lessig guest-blogger appearance was Dean’s perceived lack of a solid stance on many of the issues that Lessig’s core readership hold dear), and it could go a long way to solidifying Dean’s support among the tech set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really wonder if there are people on the Howard Dean campaign who are tied in enough to the ‘geek’ side of the blogosphere to realize how big of a deal it could be that Dean is getting mentioned prominently by Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, and Tom Negrino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,65,599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}