So there is this web community set up to track Dean related news stories accross the country and "assist" them in writing critiques / letters to the editors if they disagree with the stories. They do a very good job and have many active participants: dean2004.blogspot.com.
Josh and I have been emailing them a bit to see if they would be interested in running DeanSpace Drupal. Josh did a very good job describing what our tools would do, and they responded with a "what does that have to do with us?". I sent them back a paragraph promising that our tools could do exactly what they needed them to do: allow local communitities to track local news about dean, allow state communities to track state news, and give them better tools to build a communitity around national news. I basically proposed we would build them an app inside the Drupal communities dedicated to tracking local dean-news. But is this really required? A news critique is just a blog post to them, so all we would have to do is flag it as a "news-defence" item rather than a "blog-news" item, and then display it however we want in Drupal (in a block / intertwined with blog posts / whatever we want). And metadean could differentiate easily enough so we could have "news-defence" bubbling capabalities very easily. This reasonable? -Zack
