Scripting News

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:28:14 GMT

Joshua Marshall: "Stunning."

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:46:03 GMT

How do you feel about the results from Iowa?

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:56:05 GMT

Matthew Yglesias: "Gephardt's Out! And thank God."

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:34:47 GMT

Doc Searls: "The Dean folks have to be disappointed."

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:31:11 GMT

Command Post is kicking butt covering Iowa.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:36:48 GMT

Political Wire notes that the Manchester Union-Leader is endorsing Lieberman.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:26:30 GMT

BBC: Kerry claims victory in Iowa vote.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:00:26 GMT

Edwards blog post on second place finish in Iowa. There's nothing about the Kerry victory on his blog. Zephyr Teachout has a post on Dean.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:01:23 GMT

Jim Moore has a picture of the Web developer room at Dean For America in Burlington where I'm working tonight.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:18:56 GMT

Howard Dean on CNN: "We finished third."

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:55:47 GMT

According to CNN, Gephardt will drop out of the race, finishing fourth in Iowa.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:07:22 GMT

CNN reports Kerry with 37 percent, Edwards with 33 percent, Dean 18 percent at 9:07PM Eastern.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:50:05 GMT

At 8:48PM Eastern I'm in Dean HQ in Burlington, VT. We're all watching the C-SPAN broadcast of one of the caucuses. When a delegate switches to Dean -- cheers. We're watching the grid on the Des Moines Register website. It cross-tabs by county and candidate. It's all zeros now.

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:56:50 GMT

Today's Scripting News comes to you from Dean Headquarters in Burlington, VT. I'll be here tonight for the Iowa caucuses. Earlier today we announced Channel Dean here on Scripting News. In a bit there will be a post on the Dean blog. Comments are welcome.

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:14:20 GMT

Do you have video of Judy Dean speaking yesterday? Send me email if you do.

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:26:47 GMT

The Iowa caucuses open at 6:30 Central, 7:30 Eastern.

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:41:54 GMT

Steve Gillmor: "Channel Dean is a blueprint for effective advocacy that should (and likely will be) cloned by all the other campaigns."

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:23:58 GMT

Mike Wendland: "I am daily amazed at the Dean campaign's creative and passionate use of the Net."

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:00:57 GMT

A list of feeds we're subscribed to on the private group aggregator for Dean staff. Just getting started. If you have suggestions of other feeds we should be watching, please post them in the comments here.

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:52:44 GMT

Sitting inside Dean HQ today I find myself wondering if the McGovern endorsement of Clark is good news or bad.

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:56:30 GMT

GoUpstate has the AP news wire as an RSS feed. Good for firehose-sipping.

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:24:30 GMT

Dowbrigade: "Dave and the Deanies' first move is an innovative effort to create and distribute a really useful RSS feed - not one which will just endless repeat the main story line the campaign wants to propagate at any particular time, but one which will include 'everything everyone involved with the campaign needs to know.'"

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:55:17 GMT

Diego Doval has a new desktop app in Java that builds on the Share Your OPML SDK.

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:19:50 GMT

Meanwhile, chief Dean blogger Matt Gross has moved over one state, to New Hampshire, where he's seeking other bloggers covering the campaign there. You don't have to be a Dean supporter to participate.

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:58:04 GMT

I've become an old-movie buff thanks to Turner Classic Movies. One of the best early talkies is Grand Hotel (1932), starring many of my favorites. It's the movie in which Greta Garbo said "I want to be alone." Anyway, Lionel Barrymore plays an old sick guy who's dying and decides to have a final fling at the Grand Hotel. Of course the predators swoop in, but they all fall in love with the old coot (he is sweet). But at one point he loses his wallet that has his life savings, and he breaks down in tears and gives a wonderful monologue. He says no one will watch out for you, no matter what. He needs the money to have a life, he says. His thread in the movie is about unlearning a lifetime of bitterness and of course the person who stole his wallet puts it back and he finds it, and Joan Crawford takes care of him, and life goes on. I don't know why I told you this story. I guess because I liked it. ;->

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:17:21 GMT

Chris Clark: "Bite the bullet and give us full text."

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:30:50 GMT

NY Times: "CBS has rejected Super Bowl advertisements from two groups, saying the ads violated its advocacy rules. At the same time, the network has in the past and could again accept spots from the White House's antidrug office, raising questions about what is acceptable and what is not, and why."

Channel Dean Day

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:56:29 GMT

channelDean.xml. It'll be updated through the Iowa caucuses tonight, and if everything goes well, we'll have real-time returns channeled through the feed. We'll use this channel to focus on weblog coverage of the last week of the New Hampshire campaign, citizen journalism. And beyond that, who knows. That's the cool thing about this effort. Everything is very time-compressed. There's a chance to move. Few reasons not to.

How Channel Dean came to be. "Even the longest story begins with a single weblog post."

Channel Dean FAQ. "Several editors led by Mathew Gross, all at Dean For America, are periodically scanning the news, and selecting articles for inclusion in the flow."