Host the name of the book is the end of big how the internet makes david and goliath. The author is nicco mele and he joins us from boston. Mr. Mele before we get into the substance of your book if you could relate your personal experience to the book the end of big. Tesco i started my life as a Computer Programmer and ended up at the intersection of technology and politics in 2003. I joined howard deans president ial primary campaign. I joined very early in late april of 2003 and was on the campaign from most exactly 12 months from the early days to the very bitter end. My experience as a working for an insurgent candidate led me to think a lot about the role of technology and empowering insurgencies against the establishment. So its really kind of where my folks started. In 2007 and early 2008 we watched the astonishing democratic primary where Hillary Clinton who was the Party Standard error, indeed she and bill clinton built the modern Democratic Party. She lost in the primaries to
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The edmund not spell im at the cadet be with us our top story this hour protest against ukraine shelving in eu integration deal had been going on for a weekend happening in the countrys capital as we speak. These are peaceful scenes but police dispersed one rally with tear gas stun grenades and bad times on saturday demonstrators want the president to resign after he said no to europe but hes like sarah kept him from kiev during the week the essentials were at was the stage of the mass protest although support eu integration in opposing president a Court Decision not to sign the Euro Association deal in vilnius it is no longer the case right. Police now patrolling the area during the night several hundred police in kenya and dispersed the crowd eyewitnesses say that the stress that was rather violent novel that the two people were arrested at more than forty had to be hospitalized with different injuries the riot police cordoned off the air to the plate to anyone in sight the square wh
Intersection is shut down right now as Police Investigate a deadly hitandrun. The crash happened in south san jose and woods drive. That is near capital expressway. Nbc bay areas Kimberly Terry live at the scene. Police have have west cap expressway shut down for a few blocks as they continue to investigate this accident here. The call came in just after 3 00 this afternoon and police say they showed up to find a man in his 30s. He was lying on the ground bleeding. He was pronounced dead soon after. Witnesses told police there way fight that occurred before the car accident after which the driver took off. Officers responded. Based on witness statements, witness accounts there was an altercation in the middle of the roadway. And thats all we have. We dont know what started it. Police wont say whether the victim was heard during that fight or if the car accident was the thing that killed him. This is something, of course that, the coroner will be looking into. Several witnesses were tak
2012 and get this were on track for the best yearly gain percentage wise for the dow since 1996. There it is. Theres not a lot of volatility. Just a slow roll upward. A reminder for those listening in their car were at 117 points on the dow. 7 of 1 . Nasdaq up a. 25 . Home depot is adding to the dows strong performance. Without we can top that cant we . Oh, yes. If theres one stock that everybody is talk about on the floor is twitter. Its up big again. The shares are up more than 170 since the ipo just early november. Adding 3 today. 72 bucks a share. Of course we want to know if twitter can flying to a new high. It was up 6 at the peak. It was up to 74. 75. The volume weve traded 70 million shares of twitter. This is for a company that had a 10 million share floated in its ipo. Here on the floor were only doing 240 million shares. Thats only 20 of the total. If you say thats roughly more than a billion twitter a huge piece of whats happening in the market as the only reason why were o