Daily Digest: 7/19/07

Joshua Levy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:14:17 -0400

The Web on the Candidates

California Rep. George Miller is back with the second installment of his Ask George series, in which citizens can use video, blogs, SMS, or Twitter to ask Miller about the Iraq war. The submissions are aggregated at Community Counts, where participants can vote for the best questions. Miller then answers the most popular questions in his videos. In the new video, Miller responds to questions raised on a blog created by residents in his congressional district in California. Even though it's not produced by a presidential candidate, we continue to report on this project because it offers an example of how -- with a little ingenuity and desire -- politicians can use all corners of the web to engage voters.

Yesterday, NPR's Talk of the Nation covered the upcoming YouTube/CNN debate and the role of the Internet in the election. Listen in CNN executive producer David Bohrman, MIT's Henry Jenkins, and yours truly for a discussion about how to include the YouTube community in the debates and how the web is impacting the election.

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Daily Digest: 7/19/07