About Political Gastronomica
Political Gastronomica is a discourse on technology and online activism - how the marketplace of governing and ideas is improving with the efficiencies of the Internet.
Author Sanford Dickert, former CTO of John Kerry for President Campaign, works with political campaigns, non-profits and private companies from the Fortune 500 to startups.
Dickert leverages online community engagement techniques and technical vision for brand and message management through effective application of social media and organizational processes.

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Daily Archives: August 9, 2006
Ummm – Lieberman website crashing?
After learning about Lieberman’s website going down – you could potentially call this “hacking”, but when you are under a large amount of traffic – as long as the traffic is coming from many different hosts, this would not be counted as a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. My gut (and amateur sleuthing) tells me that they were suffering from a underpowered server – not too little bandwidth. Continue reading
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