The petition's appeal has proven itself and benefits from promotion by ET's editor/publisher in other broadcast media. You want more signatures, given an unstated time constraint. What is that time constraint? Where are the signatures?
Driving traffic further to the petition doesn't require custom refinements but multi-channel extension into offline venues. That means ET agents (FPers or other) volunteering (a) to accept broadcast opportunities (b) to create events sponsored by or in cooperation with local (film? klatch? partisan? health?) organizations (c) to paper local establishments (d) to recruit additional mirror sites (e) to disrupt conventional ad placement and (f) to mime ... just kidding! Sort of. But surely there are ET residents and associates with a gift for um tactical theater?
Forgive for suggesting, the model developing here is sustainable insofar as any one and more is willing to be creative, fly from the comfort zone. It is anonymity that is unsustainable. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
You want more signatures, given an unstated time constraint. What is that time constraint? Where are the signatures?
The Treaty of Lisbon will also introduce provisions on citizen petitions and legislative initiatives with a requirement of one million signatures from a number of member states.
ET would score a major, major, coup if we managed to deliver 1M signatures to the Council before the appointment is actually made. We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
