http://www.techpresident.com/taxonomy/term/233 Comments for "information gathering" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/186/the_dark_side_of_transparency#comment-308 <p>ID numbers are usually a great way to look at these things as well. Programmers like to see the ID numbers so they can be sure their data isn't corrupted.</p> <p>On the campaign in 2004, we used that fact to track how many volunteers Kerry signed up on his site each day. His website assigned sequential id numbers to new volunteers and published that number in your profile as your unique volunteer ID.</p> <p>We could go in and see what number he was on and tell how many people had signed up the day before. We created a spreadsheet to track how many people we had signed up in the previous 24 hours as a basis of comparison and reported that out to our Political guys.</p> <p>They were likely maintaining a separate database for volunteers that included offline volunteers (which we assume accounts for the significant difference in how many were coming in online and their public numbers.)</p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:04:23 -0400 Michael Turk comment 308 at http://www.techpresident.com