This article was featured in our local groovy weekly Seven Days this past week. It’s not about the whole blog phenom around the DeanforAmerica campaign, but another aspect – the use of the meetups.com site to create Dean related gathering. It is as much a social computing phenomenon as what Dean has done with his blog. Meetups.com was hardly used before Michael Silberman got his hands on it. I wanted to point it out since Halley Suitt has been writing so much about the web side of Dean’s campaign lately. Halley doesn’t have comments so this was the best I could do…

Halley was here…and I missed her. Damn! Well getting into Burlington wasn’t really an option over the weekend anyway with 2 1/2 feet of snow falling here. We did manage to drive 7 miles over the App Gap to get to Mad River Glen yesterday though of course. The parking lot was jam-packed so I’m sure many from Burlington made the trip. Over the mountain was interesting, to say the least.

(I have to confess that though I have her misbehaving.net blog in my aggregator, somehow her real blog wasn’t. She was blogging about Vermont starting on Thursday and I missed all of them – aaargh! Of course, that’s corrected now.)

Regarding this big storm that I have been so gleeful about, sadly there was a storm-related fatal accident north of Burlington where I used to live. A mother and her 15 year old daughter who were from Fairfax died in an accident on a road that I know well and is very hairy in bad weather. The roads were horrible and for some reason the 15 year old was driving.