Obama Off and Running. From the Politico.

Obama, as do other candidates, wants to use the Internet to connect people and build support. But he also hinted at the possibility of letting such "net-citizens" play a role in running the campaign.

He said that after his DNC speech, he had gone to George Mason University where "these college kids had organized a rally without any involvement by our staff. We figured there would be a couple of hundred people there, and there were 3,500 people. They had just organized it through Facebook on the Internet."

Obama said letting outsiders run some aspects of his campaign might be worth it. "That kind of grassroots efforts can be scary, in that I think it is hard for any campaign to give up any kind of control and there is a tendency to try to do things top down," he said. "But I think we are in a moment where there is a possibility, not a certainty, but a possibility of bottom-up activism that I think could reshape the political landscape."

Obama also said that his years as a community organizer on the far South Side of Chicago taught him that "if you want to lead, you have to be able to listen."

"If I think that the campaign is all about me, then I am going to lose," he said. "It's too big a job, campaigning in 50 states and doing all the things that have to get done. What I want is a campaign to be a vehicle for people to get involved, use their talents, feel connected to something larger than themselves."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2687.html

looks like it will follow his own template.