HERE’S MORE ON THE OPEN VS. CLOSED SPLIT in the Wesley Clark campaign, from James Moore:

Three weeks ago a friend of mine traveled to Little Rock and began working for the Clark campaign. Despite having very good personal access to General Clark, he quit after a few days, citing the closed nature of the campaign organization. And now we hear a similar tale from the campaign manager.

By contrast, the Dean campaign is open to people and ideas. It is “out of control” in the best sense of the word. Innovators such as the people of MoveOn and Meetup and DeanLink are embraced. The campaign is fresh, alive, and inviting.

As I said at BloggerCon, on the Internet you get power by giving up control. The Dean people seem to get this. Clark’s people, so far, don’t. And they’ve started their campaign late enough that they’re going to have to learn fast if they’re going to learn at all.