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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- Swing State Project (L)
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- Political Thought
- Jon Garfunkel
- Personal Democracy
- Ed Cone
- Britt Blaser
- Greater Democracy
- Micah Sifry
- Talking Points Memo
- Zack Exley
- Bivings Report
- Political Technology Commentary
- e.Politics
- PoliticalWarez
- FrogLoop
- IPDI blog
- Politics and Technology
- Politics Online
- Mobile Democracy Blog
- Tech President
- Technology Thought Leaders
- TechCrunch
- MobileCrunch
- Scott Rafer
- Occum's Razor
- Howard Greenstein
- David Spector
- Jerry Michalski
- Doc Searls
- MoPocket by Justin Oberman
- Friends/Thought Leaders
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Part 3: Master/Slave and Peer-to-Peer
Following Jock Gill’s post at Greater Democracy, the answer is not just a paradigm shift, but a combination of the two – which allows for campaigns to coordinate the message with the distributed supporter infrastructure to improve efficiencies and results. Continue reading
Posted in eCampaigning
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Part 2: Greater Democracy – History of DemComm
Creating the DemComm group was a step in the right direction, but the challenges of the campaign priorities and operational efficiencies impacted the potential success of the team’s efforts. Continue reading
Posted in Campaign 2004
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Part 1: Greater Democracy – History of Demtech
In answering Jock’s post on Greater Democracy, a minor history lesson of the Kerry Campaign is included to describe the community tech efforts attempted during the 2004 Presidential Election. Continue reading
Posted in Campaign 2004
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Movable Type 3.2 – Excellent
This weekend, I spent some time on two client’s blogs – and spent far too much time working with Movable Type 3.2. With this version, I can confidentally say that this product is incredibly powerful, easy to implement (once you have a handle on the MT APIs and CSS), and a joy to use. Continue reading
Posted in Political Tech
Tagged movable type, WordPress
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Labour, Lib Dems, Tories – how do they stack up?
Careful care and feeding of the list is the way to grow it for future volunteers and funds in the elections ahead. Continue reading
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