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October 18, 2007

YouTube Q's for the candidates

From Andy Carvin's blog:

Move over YouTube debates, now for something meatier! A coalition of blogs and news organizations is using Web 2.0 tools to create another exciting experiment in interactive presidential debates. It might even be a chance for your students to pose the perfect question to them.

This week, techpresident.com teamed up with the New York Times, MSNBC and a whole slew of blogs to launch 10Questions.com, an online presidential debate that’s a fascinating mix of video blogging, tagging and user-generated content. Joanne Colan, My colleague at the video blog Rocketboom put together this video to explain how it works:

Andy also provides a clear text-based explanation if you don't want to watch the video.

Here's my question:

[Tags: politics video techpresident andy_carvin edemocracy ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at October 18, 2007 10:24 AM

Comments

FYI:

New media is just another way to pull the same old tricks

"As is typical of user-generated content, despite all the hype about empowering citizens, the individual was utterly powerless, except to try to please and serve the interests of the gatekeeper and thereby obtain some attention (but not remuneration)."

Posted by: Seth Finkelstein | October 18, 2007 11:12 AM

A practical problem with 10 questions is that one has to wait for a video to load, then watch it (and potentially a host of videos with competing questions or competing versions of the same question) taking perhaps 30 seconds, optimistically, to a minute each, for ideas that one could read in 5 seconds each. So VERY inefficient for the value of the ideas.

Posted by: John G | October 26, 2007 11:53 PM

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