Gary Wolf, who covers the Dean campaign for Wired: “Here, I’ve offered a Retroactive Manifesto of the Dean Campaign. These are the rules that might have been posted on the wall of campaign manager Joe Trippi’s office, if there were such a list of rules. I am looking for examples and counter-examples – confirmation and correction. Are these really the principles that underlay the architecture of the campaign? Are there concrete examples you can suggest? Is something here plainly wrong? Hack away.

(Each of these rules is taken from the work of the writer whose name is parentheses. )

• ALLOW THE ENDS TO CONNECT (David Weinberger)
  
• DON’T BUILD THE SYSTEM – GROW IT (Kevin Kelly)
  
• SWARM AND SELF-ORGANIZE (Steven Johnson)
  
• UNTETHER (Howard Rheingold)
  
• YOU’RE NOT A LEADER – YOU’RE A PLACE (Joi Ito)
  
• MAKE THE NETWORK STUPID (David Isenberg)”