Caught in the Web

How Democrats mobilized online and other campaign tales.

John Fund takes a look at the new book by Joe Trippi regarding the campaign of Howard Dean on the Internet. Leaving aside screaming Dean's strange viewpoints on political issues, the account of how his campaign used the Internet is probably quite interesting. More interesting is Hugh Hewitt's view that the life of the mind is now found on the net. The Elite Media Monoculture and the calcified halls of academia can no longer accept or process new ideas and information. They are stuck. But there is lots of interesting intellectual heavy lifting available in the blogsphere, which is the democratization of the media. For a minimal investment anyone can put up their own site and expound on any subject of interest. The Internet allows all sorts of regular people, such as this author for example, to enter the world of intellectual debate and discussion with other like minded people and to bypass the liberal filters which would screen out all of the ideas that they find inconvenient.