The SEIU created the [Since Sliced Bread] contest to pick a "best" idea to grow the economy... (and) Create good-paying jobs that allow people to raise a family, afford Health Insurance, pay for their children's College Education, get additional training and save for Retire Ment.

• [Echo Ditto], comprised of some people who worked on the Howard Dean campaign, built it

• Jan10, Andy Stern was surprised at the hostility meeting the 21 ideas announced yesterday morning.

• Jan12, [JanFrel] noted dissatisfaction from the participants with the list of finalists, which were chosen by a group of judges.

• Jan19, Zephyr Teachout describes the separate site created by [Brian Julin] who let everyone (or at least 7k people) vote on 10 randomly-selected ideas that were submitted to [Since Sliced Bread], as another approach to identify the best ideas. Teachout notes I don't like consulting much - because what people really want to learn from the ex-Dean people is how to list-build. "I don't want to help build their lists," I said, "You need lists, sure, but it's the wrong lesson." My pal responded, "Democrats learned the wrong lesson from 2004. They learned list-building was important. Republicans looked at the same information and learned Social Networking."

• Jan21, Britt Blaser reviews the reviews and finger the probable cause, which I think of as a "filtering slope." I Commented there that...

It seems to me the biggest issue is that the whole thing is an artificial Zero Sum Game, which is the cost of trying to build Engage Ment via cash reward.

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