A very short response to Joe Trippi’s Afterword

After reading Joe Trippi’s “the Revolution will not be televised” and his entertaining Afterword I still find it very interesting how important Joe Trippi’s Howard Dean campaign became because of his innovative use of the World Wide Web. For the very first time Joe Trippi created an official campaign blog and moreover, he used different social networks on the Internet to connect Dean’s political supporters. Today these techniques are used by many other social and political campaigns and show how innovative Joe Trippi as campaign worker was.
The mentioned fact in the Afterword that Joe Trippi fell ill after the Dean campaign and that Howard Dean replaced him as campaign manager after consecutively losing the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary seemed to be a tragedy and a lucky chance for him at once. After all, Trippi finally signed on as a commentator for MSNBC and started his own consultancy, Trippi & Associates.