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cjoh

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About cjoh

2003-2004: Howard Dean's Lead Programmer for his Presidential Campaign

2004-2008: Founder, Blue State Digital (went on to build BarackObama.com)

2008-2010: Director of Sunlight Labs

2010-: Founder of Big Window Labs, Incubating Traceful.com, BullFightStrategies.com, RisingTideInteractive.com.

2012: Presidential Innovation Fellow, White House. RFP-EZ Team Lead (http://rfpez.sba.gov)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #41940857

    The Elegato Prompter (a separate piece of hardware) has this built in.

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    Comment #34311938

    Consider hiring an executive coach. Sometimes things we don't enjoy are opportunities for growth. I worked with one and it unlocked a lot of stuff for me.

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    Comment #33369886

    What a strange reaction to a recipe.

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    Comment #32478031

    I'd be willing to bet you've not given your email to any political candidate or campaign.

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    Comment #28519455

    Is there a way to simplify moving password management out of Keychain and into Firefox?

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    Comment #28326353

    I am more interested to know how much of that payout he will be taxed on

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    Comment #26406301

    I’m not particularly familiar with FCC law, but don’t they tend to... not approve things like this? Not being sarcastic, honest question.

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    Comment #15806378

    Real estate. Rental units are a great passive income

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    Comment #15780677

    While I generally agree that members of Congress listen more to lobbyists than to constituents, the idea that money flows this transactionally is just absurd. You yourself have pro…

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    Comment #15364770

    The great thing about predicting bubble bursts is eventually you’ll be right! (And if you’re wrong, so what)

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    Comment #13301281

    I've really enjoyed OctoberCMS: http://octobercms.com

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    Comment #10801512

    While it's poor form to have a leaky database, this information is largely public and dirt cheap. You can buy a whole state's worth of data for a couple hundred bucks or a few cent…

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    Comment #10522994

    What happens when the company that won tries to get on schedule 70, and are negotiated to contract to government for some fraction of a dollar? It sounds preposterous, but governme…

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    Comment #9894775

    >Isn't this exactly what you did at BSD? Enabled advocacy organizations to send millions of form-letter to Congress, making real constituent contact get lost in the flood? Yes. Mor…

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    Comment #9894643

    > That EFF and Sunlight could justify spending a pretty amazing upfront investment of staff labor and resources to create that ecosystem demonstrates that the existing vendor-drive…

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    Comment #9894585

    > Obviously your product, ScreenDoor, addresses some of the concerns you're raising around better data collection. Glad to hear you're so enthusiastic about that approach. Not sure…

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    Comment #9892939

    > Congressional staff already have plenty of tools for separating those form letters from real, constituent-written letters. I can dig up their names, but they're built by high-lev…

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    Comment #9892147

    Sigh. Yet another tool that makes it easy to write your representative. As though this is an actual problem. It isn't. The Market is saturated with so many tools to send messages t…

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    Comment #9800309

    Unfortunately the schedule 70 provision in this RFQ requires that you both get your devs to put something together using your open source codebase, AND spend months navigating all …

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    Comment #9772392

    ConAgra's secret? X.XB in Government Subsidies. Exxon's secret? x.xB in government subsidies. Apple's Secret? X.XB in Government Subsidies. Your House's Secret? 188.7B in Governmen…

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    Comment #9614898

    If you're up against companies with centi-billion cash reserves, yes.

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    Comment #9539279

    Yeah, I'm a pebble wearer and have been for about a 2 years. You get used to it. What's happened is: people got lazy at their notifications on their watch. Then they bought the App…

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    Comment #9539167

    I just don't buy this "Wearing the Apple Watch makes you a Pretentious Douchebag" argument. I bought it with Google Glass because it was ugly and pointed a camera at someone's face…

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    Comment #9524987

    You're right, it is just ludicrous.

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    Comment #9524651

    > How is it worse than people meeting you so they can steal technical details about your product? It's not. It's in addition to .