Category Archives: White House 2
Turn Obama’s “online town hall” into an FAQ
Micah Sifry points out that Obama’s “online town halls” are really just “transparency theater.” Referring to Wednesday’s online health care forum:
They produced a forum that was less spontaneous and less-townhall-like than if all the questions had come from citizens live at the event using no technology at all. In effect, Obama’s health care forum [...]
Imagining White House 2.0
This is the full-text of my “Imagining White House 2.0″ presentation for the Personal Democracy Forum conference.
that was just one of the marijuana questions that ranked highly on all three of obama’s online forums. much of the dialogue since then has been about how to prevent this “gaming” of the system.
well, gaming [...]
