From Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, front page, column 1:

Behind Dean Surge: A Gang of Bloggers And Webmasters

Young, Techie Devotees Flock To Democratic Candidate And Build an Online Army

“Stunned” by a Meetup Mob

By JEANNE CUMMINGS

BURLINGTON, Vt.–Two years ago, Joe Trippi was a burned-out Democratic operative who had fled Washington for California. Working as a marketing consultant for dot-coms, he was awed to learn how millions of computer whizzes had designed the Linux operating system through a free-form grass-roots collaboration and taken on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows. He wondered if a political campaign could work the same way.

Today he is managing Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean’s campaign and he’s stopped wondering. The former Vermont governor is using the Internet to transform political fund raising. About half of the campaign’s $25 million take so far was raised over the Web, mostly in small donations–a funding base the Democratic Party all but abandoned in recent decades.

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See also: Joe Trippi and Howard Dean.