[FM Discuss] almost but no cigar

[adam]

nono...i mean they were very very good at getting votes through their
network. we could see it - if we came close they woke up their networks
and put on 100 votes in a few hours...it happened 2 or 3 times like
this. my feeling is that if we had reached 500, 600, 1200 votes they
would have always had about 80 more within a very short time. The fact
we came so close was pretty good.

there was nothing dodgy they just had an extremely effective and
enormous network to draw on for drumming up votes




adam


On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 20:58 -0500, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 20:28, helen varley jamieson
> <helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
> > darn - that is a bit crap if a voting machine would be able to skew
> > something like that! surely there should be some way to stop that kind of
> > thing happening?
> 
> I happen to be a founding member of the Open Voting Consortium, which
> is creating Free/Libre/Open Source Software for just such uses. I'm
> going to bother them about writing a book here.
> 
> > however as you say there are lots of good things & certainly the amount of
> > publicity & word of mouth spreading of booki has been great. good to hear
> > also about the positive reception at transmediale.
> >
> > the real prize here is booki :)
> >
> > h : )
> >
> > On 6/02/11 1:08 AM, adam hyde wrote:
> >>
> >> hey all,
> >>
> >> We didn't get the votes. Almost but not quite. We were up against a
> >> voting machine it seems so its pretty amazing we even got so far.
> >>
> >> I am a bit disappointed but it will pass shortly. However there have
> >> been three really good things that came out of it:
> >> * while Aco and I sold the idea of booki at Transmediale we met an awful
> >> amount of people that were amazed by it. Actually, everyone we
> >> demonstrated booki to was blown away. I'm really not exaggerating - I
> >> dont think I presented it to anyone (and I must have talked to about 150
> >> people) that wasnt totally into it once they understood it. That is
> >> AMAZING and extremely encouraging.
> >>
> >> * The PR from the award will be good for us, and I think Drumbeat will
> >> illuminate Booki and FM on their website when they push the announcement
> >> of the award on their to-be-released new website.
> >>
> >> * It was astonishing how much support came back when I did the calls out
> >> for help. Pretty amazing. The comments in the Drumbeat project pages
> >> about booki were fantastic and I received a lot of email and messages
> >> from a wide spectrum of people that love FM and booki. It might sound
> >> gushy, but that has been pretty humbling.
> >>
> >> so, while we didnt get the award we did come out with more than what we
> >> came with. Thats pretty cool I rekin.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> adam
> >
> >
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