Brian Paddicks hires the ‘blogfather’


by Sunny Hundal    
March 26, 2008 at 7:53 pm

I was alerted to this blog-post in the morning, saying that Brian Paddick had hired Jerome Armstrong to head up his intenet strategy. Now this is very interesting to a political/technology geek such as yours truly because:
- Armstrong runs MyDD, one of the most influential Democrat blogs;
- He co-wrote the book Crashing the Gate along with Markos of Daily Kos - the book on forging a new progressive alliance in the US;
- He advised Howard Dean for his 2004 presidential race, using the web to great effect.
Now, Mark Pack has confirmed it.

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at 9:34 pm on March 26, 2008
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     leon

The first piece of advice he should give Team Paddick is to change that god awful website of his.

at 9:49 pm on March 26, 2008
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     Aaron Heath

Jeeeesh.

Quite a scalp.

at 12:05 pm on March 27, 2008
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     Jerome Armstrong

[...] looks like Brian Paddick has hired Jerome Armstrong as his internet consultant. Known as "The Blogfather" (well, on the [...]

at 10:26 am on March 28, 2008
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     Mark Hanson

Potentially very exciting as long as

a) Jerome is genuinely going to put the time in
b) He gets the freedom to give some control to the ‘people’

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