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| Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
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Link out 
| | Heading out of Demo, on my way to visit Craig and Judith and then on to the airport and home. |
Screen pool
Teach over
| | Trippi's speech earned him a standing ovation from the crowd, which was full of Dean fans as well as a larger circle committed to opening up the political process to greater citizen participation. But is their optimism justified? As I wrote on my own weblog last week, "People here talk like all that's needed is better tools, and then people will pick them up and take back their country from the powers-that-be. There's almost no sense of how hard organizing actually is, or why." |
| | On reflection, perhaps that comment was a bit too black and white. The beauty of blogging is that I've already heard back from knowledgeable participants who are indeed struggling to integrate this technology into local political struggles and to address issues of poverty and power that make Internet activism still largely the province of white, well-educated, well-off types (and their college-age kids). Perhaps folks who are used to working in an industry where revolutions happen every eighteen months and computing platforms get discarded every few years have reason to be optimistic about how easily change can happen. But even if they're too optimistic, their hopeful vision is of mighty value. |
Yo, etc.
| | Just got on the Net for the first time today. Service was down here at the show. Generally speaking, service is down at least some of the time at all shows that provide it. |
| | I think the problem is with the hotel interface. Serving wifi to 300 simultaneous users in one room is inherently problematic. Especially if the hotel has, like, one T1 line. |
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