MyDD & Dean campaign
In June 2001, Jerome Armstrong started the blog MyDD, “Due Diligence of Politics, Election Forecast & the World Today” (www.mydd.com). From 2001 through 2002, Jerome’s popular weblog, MyDD, served as the original nexus for the decentralized netroots effort of a blog community and then Meetup in early 2003, for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign.
Several early contributors became prominent in politics on the Internet. Markos Moulitsas Zúniga was an early fan. Eventually Moulitsas started his own blog, Daily Kos. He still refers to Armstrong as his blogfather. Later Moulitsas joined Armstrong in a political consulting partnership called Armstrong Zuniga. Howard Dean hired them for a time as technical consultants (an action they disclosed to readers), with Jerome shutting down MyDD for a year to work on the campaign.
Mat Gross, creator of the blog on Dean’s Web site, was another contributor to MyDD. Joe Trippi, former campaign manager for Howard Dean, describes meeting Mat Gross: "One day, soon after we'd moved to a larger quarters in a South Burlington office park, I looked up to see this tall young guy with an earring and a nearly shaved head wandering around the office. Security had just grabbed him and was hauling him away when he yelled out to me: 'Wait! I blog on MyDD.com!' This was, of course, the political Web site where I'd first heard about Meetup.com. 'You're hired!' I yelled, and they brought him back to me. ... Within 48 hours he had created Call to Action, the first-ever blog of any presidential campaign." [30] Call to Action eventually became Blog for America. [1]
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Mark Warner consultancy
According to the Washington Post, "one of the Democratic Party's most experienced Internet specialists formally signed on" with Mark Warner's Forward Together PAC. Jerome Armstrong, who "served as a key member of Howard Dean's Internet team in 2004, will be Warner's Internet Director." [2]
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Varia
In January of 2003 Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga formed the political partnership Armstrong Zuniga until it was formally dissolved in December 2004.
According to his blog [3], Armstrong also provides assistance for Ohio Rep. Sherrod Brown and his website, GrowOhio.org.
His book Crashing the Gate: Grassroots, Netroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics, co-authored by Markos Moulitsas, released in March 2006.
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External links
MyDD
Blog pioneer maps political strategy for 2008 - MSNBC.com, March 2, 2006
Crashing the Gate
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