“I understand the power of the camera-equipped cell phone, but we’re still struggling with that in Madison, Wisconsin.”
“Dragging the citizens to the candidates”
Will forego the moderator in the next set of political debates and just have them talk to each other
Want to have the candidates answer citizen’s emailed questions
Want to make the questions posed to candidates “fair”: “Fairness…which is as far from the blogosphere as you can get.”
Still trying to get citizens to talk to each other, face to face.
“As valuable as computer-to-computer is,” the idea of citizens talking
to each other and to candidates running for office is something valuable
Shortcoming: we have traditionally cut out young people from the
process. Active attempts at fixing this: inviting middle-school
minority students intot he newsroom
Some input from web-based participatory journalism
Here as an old-school practitioner, trying to incorporate the online innovations.