Opinion: Two days late ...
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... which in blog time may as well be two years, but this is still worth noting. The folks at MTV and MySpace held their first in a planned series of interviews with the presidential contenders on Thursday, and incorporated online instant feedback. Joshua Levy over at techPresident liked what he saw, and on tech and Web 2.0 matters that’s a hard crew to please.
We missed the live event, which used Flektor to tabulate real-time votes by viewers on how they thought John Edwards was doing. It will be interesting to see how audiences react to the different candidates once they’ve all participated -- kind of an overview of who was answering the questions, and who was ducking. Overall, only 1% thought Edwards ducked the questions, setting a benchmark for those to come.
And near as we can tell, no one asked the underwear question -- boxers or briefs? -- which can only be good for democracy.
-- Scott Martelle
