I've heard it said by Dave Winer and many many others: if only Dean had reinvested half the money raised into the Internet, then ...

OK, so you're the Dean Campaign Chief Information Officer in August 2003. The money starts to roll in. $20 million over six months, $2-4 million per month.

What would you spend the money on?

1. What does your monthly budget look like?
2. What is your application and infrastructure portfolio?
3. How much will you allocate to maintenance?
4. You're building from scratch, so what problems do you hope to avoid through wise architecture?
5. What are your big milestones?
6. Who are your key vendors?

How do you spend in consonance with the campaign strategy?

1. How will you use the Internet to bring offline voters into the campaign at the same numbers as radio or television broadcasts?
2. What is your online strategy for responding to attack ads and opposition pundits in radio, television and print?
3. Online community takes time to build and is very hard to organize geographically. What will you do to match the state-by-state primary schedule?
4. What can you do with online services to serve the campaign in caucus states?
5. You are preparing for Bush to launch in Spring 2004. What are your countermeasures to reach out to moderate Republicans online while the GOP uses its advanced voter email systems to barrage 200 million validated email addresses?
6. How will you lower the cost-per-vote vs. the GOP?

I have just moved my personal site over to a new Typepad location.  You are all welcome to visit.

The site's archive will remain intact here until I can figure out how to map it to a new location.

The Java Posse

Newscast for Nov 21st 2008

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• Correction: MSN Live toolbar with Java download is an opt-out, not opt-in!
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/sun_stows_ms_search_on_java/

• Dynamic support coming in C# for version 4.0
• http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=210

• Chris Adamson links to results from Google analytics for Java applet availability
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/11/so_alive.html
  

• Sun and Java news roundup: Sun Microsystems cutting 6000 jobs, has JavaFX hurt client side Java (slight reprise) and does Java's ubiquity render Sun irrelevant to the future of Java anyway?
• http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/14/news/companies/sun_microsystems/index.htm?postversion=2008111408 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/ 
• http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/1887 
• http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/1595
  

Quick News

• NetBeans 6.5 final is now out
  
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1313 
• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/index.html 
• http://www.netbeans.org/features/index.html
  

• Sun has released version 9 of StarOffice
• http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100362&subSection=Integration
  
• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/1958234&from=rss
  

• The ServerSide Java Symposium web site is now up
• http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/
  

• Adobe has released a beta (or is it an alpha) 64 bit version of the flash plugin for Linux
  
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ 
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/17/adobe_64_bit_linux_flash_10_alpha/
  
• Adobe AIR 1.5 has been released but not for Linux
  
• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/rchristensen_lpolanco_air_1.5.html 
• http://www.scmagazineus.com/Adobes-AIR-15-update-addresses-Flash-Player-vulnerabilities/article/121176/
  

• The expert group for JSR 317 - Java Persistence 2.0 (also known as JPA 2.0) has released the public review draft
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317 
• http://blogs.sun.com/ldemichiel/entry/java_persistence_2_0_public
  

• Bill Pugh of the University of Maryland has released version 1.3.6 of the excellent findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
  

• Joakim Ohlrogge has advice for people who want to try out Scala - "just do it"
• http://johlrogge.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/phasing-over-from-java-to-scala-pt-1/

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• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
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    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
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