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Obama gets grilled online - Computerworld Blogs
Has democracy gone too far? Can you imagine George Washington, John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson permitting the effrontery of just any Tom, Dick or Harry demanding that their pet peeve get put before the American people for a vote? Can you imagine George Bush allowing it? Me neither. Well, that's just what President Obama has done with the White House Open for Questions service that let's you or me or anyone submit a question so that everyone else can vote on it. Obama says in a video that he'll be back online this Thursday to address some of the popular questions submitted.President Obama will conduct an online town hall Thursday to answer questions about the economy, the White House announced in a Tuesday blog post . People can pose questions or rate other questions up or down via the new "Open for Questions" section of whitehouse.gov. "America, what do you want to know about the economy?"
Obama to Hold Online Town Hall Thursday - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
Holy Cow, The White House Has a Digg Clone - ReadWriteWeb
The White House has launched a new web site where anyone can submit and vote up their most important questions for President Obama about the economy. That's right - the White House has a Digg clone! At least for the next two days. Activity on the site will culminate in Obama addressing the top questions on Thursday, March 26.
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President Obama's Whitehouse.gov is finally starting to deliver on its promise. After seven weeks of lurching and sometimes amateurish underperformance, the Web team that vowed to harness the Internet to bring greater transparency and public access to the White House is finally showing its stuff, with the launch of Open for Questions , a "community-moderated online town hall" which allows members of the public to submit and vote on questions for Obama. The only topic for this trial run is the economy. The president will "answer some of the most popular submissions live" on Thursday, the Web site announced vaguely. "Many of you are worried and have a lot of questions.
Any More Questions? Ask Them Yourself - Dan Froomkin's White House Watch -- (washingtonpost.com)
White House is 'Open for Questions' on economy; Obama will answer some Thursday - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency
In another sign that the new administration is going to use the Web to reach out directly to Americans (and, at the same time, to potential voters) in campaign-style ways, it has launched " Open for Questions. " As you'll see if you follow that link, the idea is for folks to sign up so that they can submit questions that the president will then answer (some of them, that is) during an online town hall. Participants can also rate the questions that come in. The first topic is the economy.