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Today in The Nation: Open for Questions
The Nation: Top Stories — In another Internet milestone, Barack Obama's transition team responded to some of the most pressing questions on Americans' minds on Monday evening, at least according to the twenty thousand citizens who participated in the first user-generated press conference of the new administration. Transition staff posted answers to the top five most popular questions, based on a transparent ...

Web questions answered
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The transition responds to some of the top questions on its "Open for Questions" site, not making a lot of news -- you could have found those answers with Google -- but concluding the first round of an interesting experiment in what's likely to be vastly expanded online engagement across the federal government. ...

Will Barack Obama Legalize Marijuana?
Politics Daily — ... The fourth question on the list contains the aforementioned question, and its disappointing, if unsurprising, answer. From Open For Questions: ...

Obama Team Answers First Questions On Change.Gov
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Last week, President-elect Barack Obama's transition team announced that they would take questions through the website change.gov and answer the most popular queries. The first round of questions and answers have been posted. Over 20,000 people cast nearly 1,000,000 votes on questions posed by the community, the transition team says. Overall, a little more than 10,000 questions were voted up or down and ranked by visitors to the site. Some of the top questions, with answers from transition team members: Q: "Will you lift the ban on Stem Cell ...

Obama Team Answers First Questions On Change.Gov
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Last week, President-elect Barack Obama's transition team announced that they would take questions through the website change.gov and answer the most popular queries. The first round of questions and answers have been posted. Over 20,000 people cast nearly 1,000,000 votes on questions posed by the community, the transition team says. Overall, a little more than 10,000 questions were voted up or down and ranked by visitors to the site. Some of the top questions, with answers from transition team members: Q: "Will you lift the ban on Stem Cell ...

Daily Digest: The "Obama Internet" Moment?
techPresident — ... . More than 20,000 people voted about a million times on 10,000 questions throughout the transparent process, and, as Melber notes, "the leading queries focused on marijuana legalization, restoring Constitutional protections, avoiding waste in the financial bailout, Stem Cell research and education." Sure, the whole exercise was innovatively open-book, but to what end? The answers returned by the team are cut-and-paste policyspeak. A question on making stem cell research a policy priority in the first 100 days got a vague 23-word affirmation of the research in ...

Hullabaloo — ... the most important devices out there to provide cost accountability," McDonough said. "Maybe there are other way to achieve those ends." Ezra explains that McDonough is John McDonough, Ted Kennedy's senior health adviser. He appears to be bargaining away the public option EXTREMELY early. Given this, I don't see why insurers are so keen on astroturfing the community meetings. They may have already won. This would be a good question for the next round of "Open for Questions" at the President-elect's website. .

Advocates of a Special Prosecutor for Bush Seek an Answer from Obama
The Caucus — ... , and it’s part of their effort to give users a chance to interact with the incoming administration. Transition officials responded to some of first-round questions last month, including on the president-elect’s position on stem cell research and legalizing marijuana. No word yet on whether they’ll have an answer for Mr. Fertik.