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...this began with Wes Boyd and Joan Blades, a married couple of Berkeley-based computer entrepreneurs whose company was best known for a screensaver that featured flying toasters. In 1997 they sold it for $13.8 million. Then came impeachment. Wes and Joan put together a website and sent it to friends. Its title and policy: Censure and Move On. As an afterthought, the couple put together an e-mail list of supporters. "It was supposed to be a flash campaign," says Wes. "We're in, we're out, we're fixed...
...Democratic candidates, including more than $100,000 to help California's Adam Schiff beat Congressman James Rogan, one of the House managers during Clinton's impeachment trial. In mid-to late 2002, as the Iraq war loomed, the MoveOn e-mail list doubled, to 1 million. Wes and Joan hooked up with Zack Exley, whose parody campaign 2000 website, GWBush.com caused candidate Bush to declare, "There ought to be some limits to freedom"; and Eli Pariser, 22, a New Yorker whose post-9/11 e-mail petition for peace was signed by 500,000 people worldwide. All four still work...
...Joan's quiet Berkeley home plays host to a steady stream of consultants and candidates coming to pay homage. Those who seek endorsement are in for a disappointment. "I don't spend any time figuring out who the right candidate is," says Wes. "All I want to do is evangelize populism, so they go away thinking 'Whoa--there's someone other than wealthy donors I have to impress?'" --By Chris Taylor and Karen Tumulty
...programs. Bad, at least, if you want to attract young men. Testosterone-friendly shows from last season like Fox's Firefly and the WB's Birds of Prey are gone, and most of the shows that have had modest success this year (such as The O.C. and Joan of Arcadia) skew toward women. That leaves a big opening for cable. Channels like FX and ESPN are up in young male viewers. (See page...
...Harvest, Richards mulls this over. “I guess it makes sense with the demographic that shows up for Joan Crawford,” she says...