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.
Author Archives: Sanford
Sen. McCain on John Stewart….what the?!?
I have never been a proponent of the war (I used to argue with my Sephardic family members against the run up to the invasion), I can understand the logic presented. If General Abizaid is going to accomplish the effort of nation building (which former Governor George W. Bush claimed we would never do in the Presidential debates of 2000), then having the Sword of Damocles (read: pending timetables) will not help accomplish the task of bringing peace to the region. McCain’s claim is that we have brought this on ourselves (the poorly architected plan for the invasion), but it is our obligation to clean up the mess we have brought (“In for a penny, in for a pound”) to the region and the world. Continue reading
Posted in Campaign 2008
Tagged Campaign 2008, John McCain, War in Iraq
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VA Shootings….a moment of silence
And a letter from the President of Cooper Union: April 16, 2007 Memorandum to The Cooper Union Community Beginning early this morning, the Virginia Tech campus experienced a deadly assault by a gunman that resulted, in the words of President … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Thoughts
Tagged Instapundit, Virginia Tech
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EPFs – and my experience in the early 90s
Back in the late 80s/early 90s, I was a newly minted engineer from Purdue, seeking jobs in the engineering world. I was a CS/EE and was talking to a number of companies. One of my trips to a company was to Honeywell in Minneapolis where I was introduced to the Advanced Weapons Group. I spent the day with one of the engineers who offered me a glimpse into two new weapons they were developing for the US Government and how they needed a good controls engineer to work on them. While I forgot the first one, the second one is quite familiar… Continue reading
Posted in Personal Thoughts
Tagged EFPs, Explosively Formed Penetrators
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Florida moving on up…
Reading the New York Times, I saw the following article on Florida’s work on moving the date of their primary: Continue reading
Posted in Campaign 2008
Tagged Campaign 2008, Florida Primary, Jeremy Ring
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How to improve SEO/SEM without paying a dime!
The inspiration comes from a conversation with my friend Howard Greenstein, CEO of Social Media Club who just came from a lecture where he was a panelist on SEO/SEM. Funnily enough, what he told me has been second nature to so many sites that most people forget, and do not think to improve once they have it. So, to help in the discussion, let me give you my quick-and-dirty list of “to-dos” for improving SEO/SEM. Continue reading
Posted in eCampaigning
Tagged SEM, SEO
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