Four years later, what did it all mean? We've invited some of the leading innovators from that campaign to join us to discuss the legacy of the Dean campaign.

Dean's former deputy press secretary, Garrett M. Graff, will be discussing his new book, The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House. The Dean campaign was not really about the internet, it was about the message, Graff contends in his first post.

Joining Graff will be Zephyr Teachout and Thomas Streeter. Their new book is Mousepads, Shoeleather, and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics. In her first post, Teachout argues that people have misunderstood the lesson of the campaign by focusing just on how it allowed the campaign to decentralize tasks instead of focusing on how it decentralized power.

Other participants this week include Jerome Armstrong, Zack Exley, Aldon Hynes, and Tom Swan.