10Questions – moving the political needle with online video political technology - October 19, 2007
I got a great email from Blogher Jory today announcing their co-sponsorship of 10Questions:
… a new, non-partisan “People powered presidential forum” hosted by TechPresident.com, in cooperation with the New York Times and MSNBC.com and many of your favorite websites and blogs.
Here’s how it works: you post a short video asking candidates a question, vote on your fave videos, top 10 get picked, candidates answer your video questions with their own video, public decides if they actually answered the question.
Here’s why it was especially cool to get this from Blogher: the Democratic YouTube debate showed an obvious majority of men submitting/asking the questions. What gives? Last time I checked the Interwebs liked girlies too…
No offense to the dudes, but as a female voter I want answers to (what often appear to be…) female questions. Healthcare, education, humanitarian issues, poverty… I get that most voters are concerned with these, but in my experience not nearly as much.
So let’s do something about it. Submit your own questions. Vote on questions you think really need answered (like Rubji‘s above!). Get involved. Make a difference. Rock the Internet.
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Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but if it’s a simple popularity contest, I worry that the goofy, whacky, outside the lines questions will be the top vote getters, rather than the reasoned, thoughtful questions that you’ve cited. I have to go vote for snowman now…
You know, I was worried about that too in the last Democratic YouTube debate, but there were some solid questions that made it to the top.
I’m not sure on this, but it seems like there would be some sort of checks and balances in the process somewhere. FOr instance, if 5 Britney Spears questions made it to the top votes I can’t imagine that anyone in their serious mind would really have a presidential candidate respond to them.
Although that is probably a stronger interest area than most anything else. /grumble