10questions debuts online interactive political forum
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-09-29 02:12:03
NEW YORK: A bipartisan mix of political bloggers and Web sites is helping back up a new site that lets anyone post and vote on video questions posed to 2008 presidential candidates.
Townhall. Redstate. Treehugger. MSNBC. Politico. Rocketboom. DailyKos. TechRepublican and the Media Bloggers Association are among the various political groups linking to. They also promoted the bipartisan site through e-mail blasts and spread viral buzz through conversations on their respective blogs.
Site co-creator. Andrew Rasiej said it provides a truer forum for democratic questioning of candidates compared with the recent CNN/YouTube debates in which video questions submitted by people were selected by CNN journalists.
Visitors to 10questions will choose on the 10 best questions which - as of November 14 - will be available for response by candidates. After posting the responses - due by December 31 - will be subject to voting by site visitors as to whether they believe candidates adequately answered the questions.
"With the CNN/YouTube debate it sort of came off as CNN sprinkling Internet stardust on itself," Rasiej said. "There was no real follow-up so people asking questions weren't able to hold candidates accountable for their responses. [But with 10questions com,] we'll have a feedback loop to get candidates to actually answer the questions there."
Voting for the first round of questions is not yet over. Barack Obama became the first candidate to reply to a question posted on the site about net neutrality via an appearance on MTV that was then posted on 10questions com. So far more than 53,000 votes undergo been cast.
Co-creators of the place which cost about $10,000 to $15,000 to develop consider bloggers David Colarusso and Micah Sifry who cofounded the Personal Democracy Forum which explores the role of technology in politics. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.prweekus.com/10questions-debuts-online-interactive-political-forum/article/58369/
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