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Indaba.org: An Experiment in Collaborative Expression

flywheel — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:07:56 -0400

Along the lines of how to compel candidates to answer voter's questions, I invite you all to have a look at Indaba.org.

Indaba is Zulu for important meeting.

Like CommunityCounts, the Indaba interface can integrate YouTube videos with a chance to vote. But Indaba's elections are more structured. Candidates (or candidate videos) are linked to a ballot. Votes are on the record.

Right now the site does IRV-style straw polls (using ranked, transferable votes), but the goal is to create a venue for massively scalable expression of converging and diverging opinion.

One of things it could do is this:

1) Let participants rank the top 25 issues that concern them.
2) Let each candidate create a video response for each issue.
3) Let the participants rank the responses seperately.

The idea is to give the public a chance to assess their own collective responses to the candidates' answers.

By the way, I hope the people at CommunityCounts will introduce a mechanism way to randomize the display and thereby encourage assesment from across the whole field. Their current system gives too much pride of place to front runners... just like the mainstream media.

Feel free to take a stand at Indaba.org.

http://www.indaba.org

Please check out my Dem/Paul intertube video!

Interevolution — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:51:25 -0400

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lRQTcQ13uKY

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Ron Paul has iphone application out already

Avery Knapp Jr — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:45:43 -0400

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/78119/Ron_Paul_on_Your_IPhone

Thought this was pretty remarkable to have this set up and ready to go already!

Avery J. Knapp Jr., M.D.

Thanks for the idea

Liza Sabater — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:55:44 -0400

I have added a few TECH[...].com to my roster of domain names :D

Liza Sabater, Publisher
culturekitchen.com
The Daily Gotham

Campaign Tracker

derekwillis — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:20:46 -0400

Thanks for mentioning Campaign Tracker, but I wanted to point out that we *do* try to include fundraising events - if you check out May 2nd's list of events you'll see we have one on there, for example. What we say on the site is that while we try to be as comprehensive as possible, we find that it is difficult to get information on every event, particularly fundraisers.

I'd also like to point out that the Tracker offers RSS feeds for states and candidates and links to other candidate information as well. And we're not done yet - we'd love to hear suggestions on features.

Derek Willis
Database Editor
washingtonpost.com

Edwards's response in on his blog

Asa Hopkins — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:18:14 -0400

Edwards's response to the Supreme Court ruling may not be on the front page of his site, but it is up on his blog (which is linked, with headline about the SCOTUS ruling, from the front page).