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2:11 pm EST, 17 Nov :: Reply
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Julian Sanchez: I lost the thread for a second--was it Estonia still where people can see info about themselves in 75 gov't databases?
     Eric Mill: Yeah, that's what I heard.

10:06 am EDT, 24 Jun :: Reply
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Eric Mill: What did the "Good Germans" line in Lawrence Lessig's presentation mean?
     Anonymous: That's a book - Graham Green, I believe - which talks about the mistakes of the past being covered for in the present.
     Anonymous: It's an idea you find often in discussions of the Holocaust -- "good Germans" who would invariably claim after the fact that they didn't support the Nazis, but didn't do anything to resist.

9:27 am EDT, 24 Jun :: Reply
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Mitchell McConeghey: So, is Elizabeth Edwards going to be here today, or has the weather ruined the possibility?

8:36 am EDT, 24 Jun :: Reply
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5:13 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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To R. Cox from the Media Bloggers Association: where do you get off negotiating with the AP on the behalf of all bloggers?

4:58 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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ZigZagzo: Do you think that http://www.livecrunch.com is website you could say "i like it" its technology blog?

4:56 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Is news defined by what the average American reader cares about?
     jpb: Only if your news diet consists of People and US Weekly. Or: are the people smart and the broadcast dumb-down rev model is what makes infotainment stick?
     Anonymous: That's the point -- the woman on the right was saying that journalists shouldn't pay attention to things that aren't "what the average American wants to hear about."

4:53 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Jeff Jarvis: FYI, as we speak, Len Downie is stepping down as editor of the Washington Post
     curious: I'm not steeped in Journalism behind-the-scenes stuff. Is this good or bad?

4:51 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Josh: The Interwebs are baaaack!

4:51 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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The wireless in here isn't working, so it's hard to ask questions!
     Anonymous: Finally!
     Anonymous: Whats wrong with it?

4:32 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Jason Calacanis: Blogger ethics!?!? That would be called "the unvarnished truth." When bloggers are in the tent they're not really bloggers any more. If you're invited in the tent don't do it--you'll become irrelevant. We need more folks OUTSIDE of the tent.
     Jerry Weinstein: AGREED. Dangerously close to checkbook journalism.
     Jason Calacanis: Doesn't the world need MORE transparency and MORE independent voices? Bloggers should never forget that these politicians look at them as tools--just like they look at journalists. Don't mistake the seat on the plane for a seat at the table.
     Jerry Weinstein: To your point, the Bush campaign had "gated" rallies. Paying to get in, as a citizen journalist, stymies transparency.
     jason Calacanis: Jeff Jarvis is 100% correct... bloggers--and journalists--should not be negotiating with their subjects. If they subjects want to play games with access F#$%K them. That's a sign they need to covered MORE aggressively.
     Tom Watson: Perfect example: mainstream press plane crew complaining loudly when Obama ditched them to hang with Hillary. What do they expect from their campaign travel agent "friends"?

4:28 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Jerry Weinstein: Without making this personal, Mayhill Fowler's two "scoops" during primary season told me that there is an urgent need for a discussion around the ethics of citizen journalism.
     Nicola: What's wrong with people reporting the things that they see and hear? Is there a meaningful difference between saying "I saw XYZ" and having a video of it?
     Tongue Untied: A journalist should self-identify. "I'm here not as a supporter, but as a member of the fourth estate." Long-term loss of integrity will trump short-term wins.
     Erica George: Absolutely journalists - including unpaid ones - should self-identify. But groups also need to be aware that anyone at any gathering now can suddenly morph into a journalist without prior intent. New rules for speaking to targeted in-person crowds.
     bob calo: if it happened and it is reported accurately and contextually, how can it anything other than reporting. But your "friends" might be miffed.

3:55 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Nicola: Is there a difference between being paid for your writing Wonkette-style and WaPo-style?

3:12 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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jason Calacanis: What impact has the page view race--i.e. Nick Denton's pay for page view model--had on blogging? Are bloggers turning in marketers, obsessed with linkbaiting and digg's homepage?

3:04 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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jason Calacanis: Question for Ana Marie Cox: is blogging more or less fun for you now? (i.e. please compare first two/three years of blogging vs. last two/three years).

3:01 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Question from the peanut gallery: What impact has Google had on your coverage and on the campaigns?
     Anonymous: Thanks, Oprah, for the shout-out!

2:48 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Psssh. Hillary = Tamora.

2:46 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Nice Language: F bomb?
     Anonymous: Rubbish? Who decides what's rubbish?
     Anonymous: Welcome to New York. In addition to the F bomb, we have good pizza.
     Anonymous: Also, interwebs? Rly?

2:32 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Merrill Brown: What's the reality from where you folks sit about the charge from the big broadcasters and others that Obama is being hidden from the press?

2:32 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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The guy who broke the macaca story is somewhere at this conference.
     Anonymous: Why isn't he on a panel?
     Anonymous: how do you know he isn't?
     Anonymous: What's his name?

2:27 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Nicola: Why did Obama and Ron Paul end up so popular on the web? Is it just savvy media management? Is there something substantive about their messages that made them more appealing to the tech crowd?

2:27 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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G. Elmer: How do the candidates "leak" information to the media using 2.0 platforms?
     Anonymous: PINS!
     Anonymous: wiki leaks!
     Anonymous: craig's list

2:26 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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How much do the stories on the blogs influence the stories the "MSM" (sorry, I know you hate that term) picks up and discusses? Is it different on the right and the left?

2:25 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Get Out in the Crowd "Oprah"

2:24 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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RUDY = CLUELESS
     Anonymous: Wait, REALLY?

2:23 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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WWB: I want to know why Barack Obama's Twitter account purports to be written by him when it's not. Didn't Danah Boyd warn against this at PDF2007?

12:40 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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So Ron Paul supports the poll tax?

12:39 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Candidates have finite time. You might as well ask if they can have one-on-one phone conversations...
     Tom Steinberg: In the french elections there was a way of asking sarkozy questions and the most voted questions were answered. That seems brave and positive to me, if I've got the story right.
     curious: and we had that 10Questions thing back in the day. why can't candidates use something like that?

12:37 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Gary: Why isn't anyone talking about the "elephant in the room" - specifically about the vote tabulators and the issues behind it. There is evidence to this - what are the McCain and/or Obama camps doing about it?
     Gary: As in HACKING the vote tabulators...
     John Sebes: This is an issue of election reform of *how* America votes - how elections are conducted, with technology, outsourcing to private companies, etc. Any candidate positions to change this?

12:35 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Right, just agist.

12:34 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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curious: Zephyr talked about the idea of intenet politics and industry vs democracy. The campaigns are great at the whole industrial thing, but how have you/will you distribute power rather than tasks?
     Anonymous: good question

12:29 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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What technology do the candidates use, if any? E-mail? Internet? Twitter? Craigslist?
     Anonymous: I think you mean the actual candidate themselves...versus their staffers, right?

12:25 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Cheryl Contee: What are the campaigns' philosophies on coordinated messaging with or counter-messaging against bloggers?

12:23 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Micah/Andrew, how about following the wisdom of the crowds and asking the top vote getting questions?

12:20 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Jordan Schroder: Is there a role for campaigns to educate those voters that may not be informed of ways they can connect and contribute online?
     Jordan Schroder: Follow-up: What, if anything do campaigns give up when creating an ownership stake at the grassroots level?

12:15 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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How successful was the phone banking system that both clinton and obama used in the different primary states? Did people actually go onto the website and sign up to make calls?
     Ryan Kailath: I did (Texas) and made dinner for 16 friends who came over with their cellphones and chargers to do the same.
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12:07 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Josh: When will Micah and Andrew push back on Daou's assertions that Clinton ran a webby campaign?
     Clinton Schaff: I'm a Democrat, but kudos to the GOP on this.
     Clinton Schaff: oops. wrong spot. but this is a good question too :)
     Anonymous: Probably around the same time that they push back on her claim to have won the popular vote.
     Anonymous: right

12:04 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Esther Dyson: People keep talking about the Internet as "not just a funding tool." But it is also not just a talking tool. Ideally, it's a *listening* tool. How do politicians and ultimately government officials use the Net to *listen*?
     Josh: It's also an acting, or a doing, tool.
     Tom Crowl: when the words are combined with viable "MoneySpeech" for the little guy!
     Mark Murphy: When citizens' opinions are aggregated and supplied to the gov't officials in a fashion they'll digest, then they might listen.
     DavidGaliel: "Listening" to this question tool would be a useful example by the speakers and moderators of this conference. Unfortunately, it is being displayed as a cool toy rather than used to help break down the barrier between audience and stage.
     David Corn: Anyone see any evidence that a campaign "listens" to voters or potential voters through new, bottom-up technology? Are there examples? Candidates use polls, micro-targeting data-mining and the like. Campaigns are essentially self-selecting communities.
     Anthony Hamelle: Candidates and Governments have long been using Gallup and others to try and understand public opinion. It is certainly time they use the spontaneous conversations of the web for similar purposes.
     Mark Murphy: Campaigns might not listen, candidates might listen, but elected officials *need* to listen. If they aren't listening, it's (hopefully) because we're not providing the information in a form that officials find useful.
     Melinda Wittstock: When our journalists ask citizen questions via askyourlawmaker.org Senators and Representatives aides take note - they want to know what voters are thinking (and asking). It can influence policy
     Steven Clift: There is almost no investment by government in tools to listen. One useful example is Consult Queensland in Australia. Also the Seoul Metro gov hosts forums and actually reports back on a regular basis on the impact of the issues raised.
     Stan: there are more and more tools based on digg-like features in Europe to channel and elect best questions/contributions/demands from citizens. Some work really well
     Anonymous: If a candidate or elected official *were* "listening online", how would this be visible to the talkers, or the world?
     Jason Calacanis: clearly it's the world's best focus group. Esther ++++
     Clinton Schaff: Pols could listen and then transparently participate in the conversation, asking questions, seeking clarification and additional insights... Brands are doing it. So should pols.

12:03 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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WWB: Anybody else notice that the GOP Internet directors are more diverse (according to standard PC definitions) than the Dems? Just saying...

12:02 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Given Hillary's understanding, why did she pursue such a top-down web campaign?

11:59 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Hill2012: Question for Peter: Why did Hillary spend so much time outreaching to female bloggers and ignoring the men who supported her online?
     Anonymous: Why was my state blog question deleted? Is this a bad topic?

11:59 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Norm Silber: The mutual favor theory is classic free market stuff. People get together to build barns for lots of reasons other than the favor bank. The favor bank is old politics.

11:51 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Clinton Schaff: Mr. Clay Shirky, what are the implications of your research as it relates to labor-union organizing for social and economic justice?

11:43 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Given the ease with which people can post/write/blog about any topic under the sun, don't we run the risk of creating a cacophany such that nothing of value can be heard above the din?
     Padraic Ryan: I think "The Long Tail" deals with that argument well.
     Anonymous: Sure, but given that most folks have no idea of the "Long tail" (or Chris Anderson, for that matter) the simply fact is that the noise turns people off altogether so there's no prospect of separating the good from the bad.
     Padraic Ryan: People don't need to have heard of it, they just need a tool for cutting through the noise (Google, Amazon recommendations, etc)

11:28 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Sanford: Is he reading from Jefferson or Adams?
     Anonymous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Government
     John Breyault: Adams, I believe.

10:54 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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When/If Republicans lose power will their influence in the blogosphere increase or is it the Party who is in opposition when a medium arrives that continues to control that medium when in power?

10:12 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Jane Rocks!: Jane: How did you get so awesome?

10:05 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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The real question is - are the conservative blogs doing enough to save us from the danger fashion accessories that pop up in commercials for iced lattes?
     Anonymous: It's hard to say, but Jane Hamsher is certainly saving us from the dearth of pictures of Joe Lieberman in blackface.

9:57 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Norm Silber: The larger picture is, isn't it, whether internet advertising and paid-for content placement and the commercial ad model is slowly overwhelming unsponsored donor driven sites?
     Clinton Schaff: Paid ads and placements will not have the same level of credibility nor the same capacity for word of mouth that organic people-powered contributions. Ads still work, but people will move their feet and their clicks online.

9:51 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Eric Mill: I was thinking PDF would at least pretend to be non-partisan. Are conservative activists and citizens unwelcome here?
     Jordan Schroder: Would you like some fresh ground pepper with your Crow?
     Eric Mill: Fair enough. :) Balance is more than just one guy, though.
     DavidGaliel: Think post-partisan. We can work together to develop open tools for empowering citizens and increasing transparency. That should not be a partisan notion. Or, we can jostle for proprietary partisan advantage.

9:48 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Link to Hamsher video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KACQuZVAE3s

9:41 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Brian Behlendorf: Does anyone else have difficulty with the dichotomous nature of these tools? Mapping out our differences to three decimal points makes for nice eye candy, but what does it accomplish?
     Anonymous: It would be nice if that map had more than a two or three color pallet.
     Anthony Hamelle: We actually have a map of 4,000 websites with another major color for "independents". However we don't decide who gets to the top, we only reveal through linking patternes and social graph theories (I'll admit this choice is a decision on its own)
     Mark Murphy: Moreover, does it help us to exacerbate "liberal" vs. "conservative" in all these data analyses?

9:35 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Are these presentations being live streamed?
     Mark Pesce: Theoretically, yes using Qik.com, from various mobiles and other devices. Theoretically. Check PDF front page.
     Jon (confabb): there is live video via flixwagon on sidebar of conference webstie

9:33 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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J. Schroder: Visualization of Technology and politics blogs seems rather like the left and right brains in a neural network. Any other metaphors?
     Anonymous: <a href="http://www.speedtest.net">testing html</a>

9:29 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Eric Mill: How many graphs of nodes do you expect we'll see before Personal Democracy Forum 2008 concludes? Starting guess: 6.
     Tracy: 6? I think you underestimate the passion of datageeks.
     Anonymous: 200
     Anonymous: Well, I think there's been at least four or five already in the first half hour. So .. um .. I'd say 50 or so.
     Josh: I'm seeing a drinking game in the making.
     m: There's another one. Is someone keeping an official count? Volunteers?
     Anonymous: Having deja vu from Beyond Broadcast last week.
     Josh: I'm wasted.
     HowardGr: 35
     Anonymous: nodes and links are so 1.0

9:27 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Ben: Do either Microsoft or Linkfluence have open APIs that allow access to this data?

9:23 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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mike: Will speaker power point presentations be made available for download?
     Mark Pesce: Yes, on SlideShare. At least, we've been asked to do so.
     Anonymous: great thanks!

9:21 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Cheryl Contee: Is Linkscape capturing real time results?
     Anthony Hamelle: Mots of the time, the conversations are indexed on a daily or twice-daily basis, depending on the topics. However it can sometimes be up to the hour.

9:19 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Julian Sanchez: How significant is the placement of the major campaign sites? How many of these connections are passing links on "Candidate X is the spawn of satan"?
     Padraic Ryan: Would anybody saying that actually link to the official campaign website?
     Ian Mishalove: yes -- especially if they wanted to point out specific quotes, actions, policies that justified their claim
     Anthony Hamelle: A link from A (Dailykos eg) to B (Fox News eg) does not necessarily mean A endorses B. It simply puts B on the map as an influential player in the field.

9:15 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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What are the axes on this graph?
     Anthony Hamelle: There are no cardinal axes. What matters is the centre-periphery tension. The more at the centre of a territory, the more links with all parts of the territory. The more at the periphery, the more links you have with only certain parts of the territory.

9:15 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Jordan Schroder: Let's share your del.icio.us links with each other? http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_usandp=PDF2008andtype=all
     Jon (confabb): you can see all these on the media tab at pdf2008.confabb.com - official conference website

9:14 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Greg Elmer: what links, all links? These maps are pretty but they are nearly impossible to decipher
     Sanford: Looks like they took design suggestions from google analytics.
     Anonymous: the "buzz" stuff is more interesting, especially if you can figure out what is being discussed -- issues, etc.
     Anthony Hamelle: All html links (blogroll links, in-message links, trackbacks) that are tokens of interest to other websites. Interest does not mean endorsement or agreement, it just means recognition that another website is a relevant player in the field

9:13 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Sanford: The measure of influence - # of links not a strong/correlated metric. Truth is the influence is based on the actions/response to posts.
     Anthony Hamelle: On the web, influence can be divided into structural influence (site), best reflected by links or traffic data, and dynamical influence (message), where comments or engagement tokens (sometimes hard to spot) are very relevant

9:12 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Sanford: What was the title of the last poem?
     John Breyault: As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days.
     Jordan Schroder: Walt Whitman wrote it but I dont think she mentioned the title...
     benmurray: http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/waltwhitman/13293
     Sanford: Thanks.

9:06 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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What time is this show getting started?
     Anonymous: 8:30 am sharp

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qZAKiFCiPcuHvhZm: zNFeYz <a href="http://qcdewievtdnp.com/">qcdewievtdnp</a>, [url=http://hpuwmkuvhafj.com/]hpuwmkuvhafj[/url], [link=http://rtfikzhdudlq.com/]rtfikzhdudlq[/link], http://zmszcrsqhexi.com/

10:09 pm EST, 27 Nov :: Reply
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Hobson: How is this democracy when it costs $675.00 to attend? Also, how many people in attendance actually paid the fee?
     Anonymous: you can wait until you get your stimulus check.

1:20 pm EDT, 25 Jun :: Reply
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Can they actually explain HOW we can use twitter for the questions?

10:12 am EDT, 24 Jun :: Reply
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Is the Internet really a community, or just a medium?
     Anonymous: It's a series of tubes.
     Anonymous: I thought it was a dump truck.
     andy carvin: It's a series of communities. In tubes.
     Anonymous: It's a desert topping _and_ a floor wax.
     Anonymous: It's a friend, and it's a companion / And it's the only product you will ever need / Follow these easy assembly instructions it never needs ironing
     Anonymous: Do not taunt Happy Fun Internet.
     paul stewart: it's hot fudge sundae on plain vanilla ice cream..yummy!!!

5:32 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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I hate when small states like Iowa has ONLY republican talk show. So how would people know about other stuff and options. No wonder 70% of Iowans are Rac....

5:00 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Bontb.com :): I rather blog 8 hours and make money from it then working for somebody that pays me $15 I wish more people would be involved! lol.

4:58 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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To R. Cox from the Media Bloggers Association: where do you get off negotiating with the AP on the behalf of all bloggers?

4:58 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Alan: What does the panel think about the AP's new policy of bloggers needing to pay licensing fees for as little as five quotes being quoted?

4:57 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Obama is a muslim, or is not a Christian. Hows that for a open web question that has risen to the top despite being false?
     Anonymous: That didn't start on the web, though, did it?
     Obama: Are you out of your mind?
     Anonymous: It came to me as an email. Sort of off the wall email, and it had a link in it that says "check it out on Snopes!". Of course, if you click on the link to snopes... it said the whole thing was false. interesting email tho, i still have it.
     Anonymous: http://isbarackobamamuslim.com/ = win

4:55 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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"So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation."
     Anonymous: Amen

4:07 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Why are we listening to this guy talk about "high" milk prices? zzz
     Anonymous: word
     Anonymous: Seriously -- what does this even have to do with the panel?
     Anonymous: He's the man, best journalist in NYC. Give him time.
     jpb: Are you kidding? Broadcast radio embracing networked media is a BIG DEAL. Props to Lehrer

3:55 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Where's Mary Katherine Ham??
     Jeff Jarvis: I was just told by the PDF people that she had to cancel.
     Micah Sifry: Yes, Mary Katherine took ill and is in the hospital. We're hoping for a quick recovery.
     Anonymous: Thanks for answering. Hope she's OK.

3:54 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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So why WAS Ron Paul so successful?
     Tom Crowl: Cause while he may have some unorthodox positions... At least he has some unorthodox positons!
     Anonymous: While many of his policy ideas were not viable, the fact that he was willing to take a risky position on various issues struck a chord with young people who have had their fill of "politics as usual."
     Kathy: Unorthodox but principled. Libertarian leanings appeal to much of the Net culture.
     Anonymous: Both Obama and Paul were really appealing to the people on the web, but their policies aren't exactly similar. What is it they have in common? "Change"?

3:14 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Geoff Decker: Is "checkbook journalism" an acceptable way to pursue news stories?

3:08 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Do you all have a favorite state blog in Maryland or Virginia?
     Anonymous: Not Larry Sabato
     Anonymous: I was asking the panel.
     Anonymous: Aren't we all on the panel?
     Anonymous: It's a web 2.0 conference! blogosphere! new media! social networking! and other buzzwords
     Anonymous: http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com Informative, Insightful, Analysis.
     Anonymous: THE QUESTION WAS FOR THE PANEL

3:02 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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How often to big stories on the blogs become big stories in the MSM? What influences that?

3:01 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Jason Calacanis: why is everyone obsessed with defining what a blogger is? yawn... very 2004 discussion.
     Josh Levy: I'm more interested in how they define what a *journalist* is, now that the profession has been radically redefined.
     A. Sofi: What a journalist is will be the the very 2008 discussion, in 2012
     Lynne d Johnson: The question now is definitely about what a journalist is -- we we move deeper into hyper local content, microblogging, and the like.

2:56 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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POLICY = SNOOZEFEST
     Anonymous: Policy Sucks.
     Anonymous: I HATE SPINACH
     Anonymous: I hate broccoli. Because I am a Bush.
     Anonymous: No more insulting veggies. Ben Smith looks like an angry potato and he will take it personally.
     Anonymous: Can I insult tomatoes? Do we like Nix v. Hedden here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

2:45 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Why don't journalists just quit (like Radiohead did)?

2:42 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Woah. Jane Hamsher is the best. If she says it is biased then it is.

2:37 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Rubbish? Who decides what's rubbish?

2:37 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Narrowcasting: y/n?

2:35 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Alan: Are we giving Facebook fans and groups too much weight when it comes to politics? After all, can't you join Facebook if you're under 18? That could mean a substantial number of engaged Facebook friends can't even vote come November...
     Anonymous: But people who can't (or don't) vote can still have an influence. Not if they're only joining Facebook groups, but there's more than that...
     Alan: But what kind of influence would that candidate or campaign team want other than a vote? (OK, money, but again, under 18, you're not likely to donate.)
     Nicola: Volunteering, get out the vote efforts, driving people to the polls, making phone calls, blogging, commenting on blogs, YouTube...
     Alan: Driving... depends on the driving age of individual states. On the other points, you're right. But, if all they're reaching is other people their age, they're not having a direct impact on voters. They may positively impact donations, but not votes.
     Erica George: Even if we assume the under-18s aren't at all influencing anyone over 18's voting behavior (ignoring their doing GOTV etc), those are the voters NEXT presidential cycle. It still matters, a lot.

2:30 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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WWB: Does this mean we all get free cars???
     Anonymous: Look under your chair

2:26 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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No need for Oprah. THIS IS THE NEW OPRAH, PEEPS!

2:25 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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The Edwards Woman is OUT OF CONTROL.
     Anonymous: But she's correct.
     Anonymous: She's no Jane Hamsher, that's for sure.
     Anonymous: no, she's naive.
     Anonymous: Why didn't Edwards advocate for free wi fi? it could of been part of his poverty agenda
     Anonymous: John McCain is old. WOW how original. No wonder your candidate is selling awnings now.
     DavidGaliel: One example of how the design of a tool effects behavior of participants: if anonymous comments were disallowed, and registered attendees all posted in their own name, the discussion would be more constructive, civil and serious.
     WWB: Russo offered only blanket assertions and bland platitudes. McCain being old is not proof that he's clueless. I wonder what Esther Dyson would say to that point.
     Apollo Gonzales: And you can't discount staffers. Surround yourself with smart people right? A race car driver is not a mechanic. He/She is part of a team

12:35 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Since McCain doesn't use email...does he use a quill pen instead of a ballpoint pen?
     Anonymous: clay tablet.
     Anonymous: thingsyoungerthanmccain.com

12:35 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Matt Pace: And the democrats play the AGE card!
     Anonymous: thingsyoungerthanmccain.com

12:34 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Has Hillary Clinton given the Obama campaign her email database of supporters? Does she intend to do so?
     Anonymous: she must have because I get emails from his campaign now. And there was a "special" email from him to HRC supporters.

12:27 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Impartial Audience Member: Maybe a live blog of this panel? There's more to be said...some polling questions live to the audience would be nice as well.

12:27 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Why are we using this shitty Q/A tool when we could just have a Twitter channel streaming in the background?
     curious: thanks for volunteering. Care to set one up please?
     Anonymous: Because then you wouldn
     Anonymous: i would if my computer wasn't running out of juice... er.... buh bye

12:24 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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David Corn: Why is it a REAL conversation when a candidate uses an anecdote about a supporter to make her case? Candidates have always done this. I met this 85-year-old retiree who shook my hand and said...It's like a corporation using a customer testimonial.
     Anonymous: So true. It's maddening when Hillary's people say that (and I voted for her).
     Anonymous: ARCHIVE ME PLEASE ARCHIVE ME PLEASE ARCHIVE ME PLEASE ARCHIVE ME PLEASE ARCHIVE ME PLEASE
     Anonymous: DELETE ME. DELETE ME. DELETE ME.

12:24 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Travis - CBS News: A million Facebook friends is cool and a great stat to quote. However, how many are truly active evangelists for your campaign, versus those that just follow a mob?
     Ryan Kailath: Whatever the percentage of true activists, it certainly increases proportionally with the number of members. More can't hurt.
     Ryan Kailath: Whatever the percentage of true activists, it certainly increases proportionally with the number of members. More can't hurt.
     Padraic Ryan: Side note: Facebook friendship is not limited to eligible voters. I'm Canadian and Barack is my friend.
     Travis: True. I wonder if the database is parsed like to determine the makeup of the friends.
     Clinton Schaff: I'm sure they're mining the social nets for data, right? That's what they're for. Two companies that do this are 33Across and Unbound Technologies.
     Alan: And Travis, how many of those people are old enough to vote? And of the 1 million views on some YouTube video, how many are 18+?
     still can't drink legally: Again, though -- people under 18 can be influential. If it were just about a vote, there'd be no point in anything besides things that led DIRECTLY to getting out the vote...
     Clinton Schaff: More than 75% of YouTube viewers are 18+. And young people have influence over their parents and others, as well.
     Alan: Gosh, I hope adults aren't being told or influenced by their children who to vote for...
     Alan: Amen. The goal is to win. Not to run a community.
     Anonymous: Laying the foundation to win future elections is nice too though, right?

12:23 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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curious: I hear a lot about My.BarackObama. Why exactly is it considered so powerful?
     Clinton Schaff: because its a candidate-branded social network that balances candidate messages with efforts to keep folks engaged, organizing, and building strength together. (My take at least.)
     anonymous: It shouldn't be confused, though, as a place where Obama derives advice for policy decisions. Few there were asking for him to support the FISA compromise, for example.
     Anonymous: I get that, but why is it powerful when McCainspace isn't? And why does a social network hold power?
     Clinton Schaff: Admittedly, I haven't tried McCainspace. Can't help as to differences in features or implementation.
     Anonymous: GREAT QUESTION INDEED - BUT MIND SCROLLING THE SCREEN UPWARDS SO WE CAN SEE THE REST OF THE QUESTIONS?
     Anonymous: SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL
     Anonymous: SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL
     Anonymous: SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL
     Anonymous: Just vote up a different question...

12:21 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Josh: Why is the panel not taking the question with the most votes first? What's the name of this conference?
     Anonymous: Good question!
     Anonymous: Because this vote tool is buggy -- it only counts one vote per IP and we all have the same IP in the audience.
     Anonymous: Yes, this is a huge problem. Pretty lame actually. WE ARE THE CONFERENCE.
     Anonymous: Agreed. This is really annoying.
     Anonymous: this conference should have a twitter channel running on the screen at all times

12:20 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Steven Clift: Will your candidate have a blog after the election in the White House?
     Anonymous: hahaha. good point! let's all vote this one up!
     Anonymous: if they win of course :-)
     Stan: I hope not. Two rules of blogging : - have time to blog and comment yourself - be direct, be transparent. Since that's simply not realistic, I'd rather they didn't do it at all. Time-limited regular interactive events would be a good start
     Anonymous: And, per the current conversation, will they ever personally respond to questions after they are elected.
     Anonymous: they should
     S Clift: Or a related question ... how will the next President interact with the social networks they built or created on sites like Facebook from Nov. 5 forward. Can the winner really turn this off?
     EllnMllr: Important point. Let's look forward. Maybe the answer to this question will help people make a decision about who to vote for.

12:20 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Clinton Schaff: How are campaigns utilizing conversation listening tools such as Visible Technologies' Trucast, BzzLogic, or even free tools like Google Alerts? Which are they using and how are they using them?

12:19 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Will John McCain's age hurt his interest in making sure that his web outreach is competitive with Obama's?

12:17 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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To McCain/Obama - How much of your campaign's web activities do you foresee your candidate taking to their governance, should they win?
     Anonymous: Softball question...
     curious: I don't think this is the right time and place.
     curious: I don't think this is the right time and place.
     DavidGaliel: Better way of posing this: what specific online tools used in your and others' campaigns could be used in governance, post-campaign, and how?
     Melinda Wittstock: What kind of backlash to expect if all the folks donating $20 to Obama don't ultimately feel they have a stake in policy in the first 100 days? how much influence will they have?
     Anonymouos coward: Most pointedly: will you be able to put the genie back in the bottle, because when you're in power you'll probably want to.

12:14 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Tom Steinberg: What technical achievement did you admire the most in someone else's campaign?
     Anonymous: Good question
     Anonymous: good question

12:01 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Ian Mishalove: how can we get the on-stage display of these questions to show "recent" questions, not "active" questions? anyone?

12:00 pm EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Greg: Most of the world looks to the USA as the leader in online campaigning and fundraising. Have you learnt anything from other countries?
     Tom Crowl: Such a platform should combine Candidate/Cause and Charity functions (these are civic functions addressing the "Commons") http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com
     Tom Crowl: oops, wrong spot! But goog idea to see what other countries are doing

11:58 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Tom Crowl: The difference between a public "space" and a public "square" is that a public square MUST be non-partisan and transparant and it MUST have effective lines of opinion/motivation (Money/Speech/MicroDonation between leaders and citizens.
     Tom Crowl: Such a platform should combine Candidate/Cause and Charity functions (these are civic functions addressing the "Commons") http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com
     Anonymous: Why was my state blog question deleted? Is it a bad question?
     Anonymous: Ben Smith= Angry Potato

11:58 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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blog post about the Belarus flash mob from 2006: http://tinyurl.com/35rafb

11:43 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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we can't read this tool from the back of the theater (which is too formal to have a conversation). and speakers are ignoring these questions. so how do we have a conversation in this very formal room?

10:12 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Suggestion: Patrick, try to be more like Jane.
     Anonymous: let's not do that here. I'm here for an intellectual discussion, not for predictable partisanship.

10:09 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Wheres the IRC channel? This is making me tired...
     jon mandell: use Notes on the conference website
     Anonymous: I 2nd that...
     Anonymous: Can we have discussions through the confab notes? It seems like it's more of a soapbox than a discussion tool.
     Anonymous: irc at irc://irc.freenode.net/pdf2008 but not many people in the room

10:04 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Mark Pesce: Do evangelical and/or conservative movements 'question authority'? This is one area where I see the disconnect between left-of-center and right-of-center politics online.
     Jesus: I think evangelical movements question the authority of science, rational thinking and reality.

10:03 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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dwitzel: re: George Carlin. how many of the 7 words can you still not say on TV? broadcast vs. cable?
     matt burton: off the top of my head, you can say 3 on cable, and all are still off-limits on broadcast
     Nick: CNN actually went down the list this morning- they did the S*** thing with four of them but wouldn't even hint at the other 3.

10:01 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Just wondering if an "educated" citizenry now means a "participatory" citizenry as well.
     Jordan Schroder: That's the chicken and the egg scenario isn't it?
     Mark Pesce: Participation rates in social media vary wildly from 5% on Wikipedia to .2% on YouTube. Politics will probably run along similar lines.
     Will Richardson: I'm just interested if we raise those percentages by making all of this a part of how we educate kids as citizens.
     Anonymous: Don't forget Zephyr said 5% of people in the 50s would be present at association meetings.
     A. Sofi: I think you get the point: now educated citizenry means partecipatory citizenry. Not just information, but information in action (which is politics) :)
     Will Richardson: Right, but now you don't need to be physically present. In that light, should we be trying to raise those percentages?
     Josh Levy: Will, you're totally right. So much of this "conversation" we want to have is dependent on literacy -- about the web and citizen participation in general.
     Mark Murphy: On chicken and egg, I vote egg. Without avenues for participation, people have no incentive to be educated. Why spend the time if your voice means nothing?
     Jordan Schroder: I agree wholeheartedly Mark. Education on new and existing tools, avenues and other participatory democratic processes needs a holistic approach.

9:54 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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HowardGr: Is Jane a blogger or does she run a PAC? This is unclear. She's creating ads and supporting candidates.
     Anonymous: a blogger with a budget
     Lisa Votino-Tarrant: She's a blogger, but I believe since her blog was so successful, she started a PAC?

9:51 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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M: Jane: Where did your demographics for blog-readers come from? Is the data publically available?
     Clinton Schaff: Quantcast offers some nice free tools to see blog-reader demos.

9:51 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Jed Miller: I love Jane and FDL, but just because you can rise into the A-list quickly doesn't mean the blogosphere isn't at a constant risk of being top-down and a mini-MSM of its own.
     Anonymous: I'd argue that Jane has a big leg-up on your average blogger due to her success in Hollywood - she had the resources to go full-force into making an A-list blog. Disingenuous characterization of Jane from Micah.
     Mark Pesce: But, should that happen, won't other blogs rise up to wipe the smirks off their mini-MSM faces? Isn't that the new rule?
     Jed Miller: Mark, yes absolutely the new rule. But the burden is always on the arrivistes to keep their RealRoots in mind.
     Anonymous: Ummm...really? Resources? What kind of resources?
     David Corn: When you talk about facing competition from Swampland (Chicago Tribune) and other MSM media blogs/sites, you raise the issue of blogging versus journalism--a question that is often fuzzed over in these sorts of discussions.
     Josh Levy: A lot of celeb bloggers on the HuffPo arguably have a leg up, but haven't come close to doing the kind of stuff Jane has.
     David Corn: Arianna got into some of this, but still nt a lot of talk on this point. Isn't there a difference between information and the medium? That is, the message is more than the medium.

9:38 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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M: Can we build a registry of all the sites that are live blogging so we can try and keep track of others comments? Maybe we could post the list on PDF?
     M: Until a better solution is in place, you can leave your URL on my blog: http://www.achicagoblog.com/2008/06/23/anybody-live-blogging-pdf/
     J. Schroder: Mmm, delicious: http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_usandp=PDF2008andtype=all
     antonio sofi: if you like it multilinguistic (in Italian) http://www.webgol.it/2008/06/23/pdf-2008-live-coverage-sort-of/
     Anonymous: now we need a list of the listing options

9:36 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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David Corn: Is there a way to evaluate a link (say, a link between blogs and websites) that characterize it as a negative or positive mention? I'd like to see a color graphic of that sort.

9:34 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Tom Crowl: Democracy grew in small groups. Industrialization works against this. MicroDonation with Social Networking act as Proximity Substitutes. With Live Elements drives creation of a vital non-partisan Online Public Square http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com

9:32 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Sanford: Hey! can we see that triplet on the screen again? Or is this presentation going onto slideshare?
     Mark Pesce: All speakers have asked to put their slides into SlideShare. So we have hopes.

9:31 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Can you slow down, please?
     Anonymous: Microserfs are busy

9:25 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Ben: How do the ratings of a site on Linkfluence compare with those on Microsoft Blews? Which is more accurate for determining bias of a site?
     Guilhem Fouetillou: I think we should try but linkfluence results and blews results should be really near one other. We're both using link patterns to determine positions.

9:22 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Are you going to take questions from this question tool?

9:18 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Tracy: The graphs are fun, and data is impressive, but is this actually useful? If so, how? What is this telling us that we don't already know?
     Anthony Hamelle: The interet is to actually differentiate between opinions according to their place of origin and their evolution on the web. eg the Conservative community is interested by public financing while the Proressive community is interested by FISA
     DavidGaliel: The choice of what to measure and what not, and how to represent it in a visual map, is more hidden and less intuitively obvious with appealing, flashy mapping, which can give an illusion of revealing more than it conceals.

9:17 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Are the linkfluence links derived from algorithms and, if so, what is the likelihood of misleading links as a result of DNS attacks, etc?
     Anthony Hamelle: The links we use are derived from our own set of algorithms. However, we only take into account html links that are included in sites' webpages. There's no risk of falsely including Internet "use" patterns such as DNS attacks.

9:12 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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Ian Mishalove: Given the overwhelming # of opportunities for community-building online today, do we risk people tuning out, disconnecting, diluting participation from sheer opportunity-overload? If so, how might we address this?
     Tom Crowl: there will be a natural inclination for donors and recipients to congregate online. This becomes the natural vehicle for these networks. Non-partisan and transparant are essential. http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com
     Mark Murphy: Some tech standards wouldn't hurt. We need to keep lowering the barriers to involvement by netting out all the hassle of site signup, umpteen zillion sites trying to email you, and the like.
     Jordan Schroder: Removing the stones from the garden walls one by one...
     Tom Crowl: Many people donate to a charity through their employer. Imagaine signing up for a non-partisan site from which you could donate to ANY charity, CAUSE or CANDIDATE, even in 'Micro-amounts' (think networking) http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com
     Tom Crowl: Imagine debate where all participate with the same $5 (rich or poor) given in 50 cent votes througout the debate with real-time feedback! Would the media cover it? Would candidates want supporters to participate? http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com
     Tom Crowl: It is essential to provide Proximity Substitutes (viable Money/Speech)and Localization Facilitators to compensate for lost functions of the "Public Square."
     Tom Crowl: This platform MUST be non-partisan and transparant. If these functions are divided it will increase polarization. see http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com
     Anonymous: I was a little thrown off that 1 of your 4 comments didn't include your url.
     Tom Crowl: I do push a little hard sometimes... someone said that to accomplish anything worthwhile you have to be relentless! think it was Rose Kennedy It's an affliction.

9:12 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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How do we best educate citizens to form their own groups and and use that group for change?
     Jordan Schroder: Social networking groups that aren't limited to the 'walled-gardens' of myspace and facebook.
     Mark Murphy: Time. I think the Millenials will gravitate to this naturally, and a rising tide of net-savvy citizens will lift lotsa boats.

9:08 am EDT, 23 Jun :: Reply
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the system: Welcome to the live question tool. Feel free to post questions. Vote by clicking on the votes box.

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