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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.
Category Archives: Campaign 2006
Florida Governor Debate – Smith versus Davis – who won?
Got home late last night and watched the streaming video of the Florida Democratic Governor debate between Congressman Jim Davis of Tampa and State Senator Rod Smith. I built an issue by issue evaluation on the performance and give my estimate of who performed in each issue to help me better understand the stance. Prior to watching, Davis came into the debate with assumptions of being stiff and not as strong a debater as Smith, whereas Smith would be more in his element. Continue reading
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Defining the main theme of 2006?
I wonder – does Joe actually think that the war is good or is it support for the Administration policies? The people that I know, who know him personal, speak of his incredible integrity and the fact that he would not be so duplicitous. His belief in the country and the threats that exist lead me to believe that he is strong on his convictions, even when faced with a vocal group of constituents who disagree with him. Continue reading
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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