Ari Melber of the Nation interviews Joe Trippi, of joetrippi.com.
Joe Trippi worked on his first presidential campaign for Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 1980. His work in presidential politics continued with the campaigns of Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt, and most recently, Governor Howard Dean.Trippi has worked on more than one hundred campaigns and has helped elect city attorneys and governors, mayors and senators. In the 1990s, Trippi's lifelong fascination with technology led him to work with a number of high-tech companies, including Wave Systems, Progeny Linux Systems, and Smart Paper Networks. He currently heads the multimedia consulting firm Trippi and Associates. Trippi appears regularly on MSNBC as an election analyst and commentator and has been profiled in GQ, Fast Company, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine. The father of three, he lives with his wife, Kathleen Lash, and their terrier, Kasey, on the eastern shore of Maryland.
Ari Melber is the Net movement correspondent for The Nation, the oldest political weekly in America, a writer for The Nations blog and a columnist for Politico.
This conversation took place at the Internet and Politics 2008 conference at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.