{"id":151,"date":"2004-02-06T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T15:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=151"},"modified":"2005-12-30T07:29:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T12:29:24","slug":"burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/burst","title":{"rendered":"Burst"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neat article<\/a> at BusinessWeek<\/em> about how Dean’s collapse mirrors the dot-com bubble. Compare and contrast with this Washington Post article<\/a> about how Dean’s campaign sidestepped the traditional organizational structure of the Democratic party. I guess you could substitute “sidestepped the traditional bricks-and-mortar retail structure” for that part, if you want to feel like it’s 1999 all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neat article at BusinessWeek about how Dean’s collapse mirrors the dot-com bubble. Compare and contrast with this Washington Post article about how Dean’s campaign sidestepped the traditional organizational structure of the Democratic party. I guess you could substitute “sidestepped the traditional bricks-and-mortar retail structure” for that part, if you want to feel like it’s 1999 … <\/p>\n

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