Obama Team Rolls Out New Web Site That Takes Questions From Public
TPM Election Central — ... It's a page entitled "Open For Questions," in which anyone can submit questions to the transition and, subsequently, to the administration. ...

Obama Transition Taking Public Questions
Seeing the Forest — ... Go to this site, sign in, leave a question, and most important, vote Yes or No on the existing questions before right wingers show up and skew things: Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Open for Questions ----> Scroll down to see comments. Posted by Dave Johnson at December 10, 2008 11:02 AM ...

Good Timing
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] It just so happens that The Office of the President-Elect, which should really be called the office of the president-elect, has today started a new feature on its website called "Open for Questions." The Obama-Biden Transition wants to hear from you. Use our 'Open for Questions' tool to ask a question about a policy or issue that's important to you then click the check mark or the "X" to tell us which questions you most want the Transition to answer. My first question is a variation of the one Obama didn't answer from the Los Angeles Times : Is Obama aware of any ...

'Open for Questions'
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The Transition just launched a Digg-style tool by which citizens can ask questions and vote on the questions they think Obama's aides should answer -- in theory, a more authentic, less controlled, system than your average online Q & A. ...

Ari Melber: At Harvard, Obama Staff Envision Their Movement's Future
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... was emailed to every Obama supporter after the election. Second, several hundred field organized gathered in Chicago last weekend for a private debates. Finally, in what may be the largest post-election campaign gathering besides inaugurals, tens of thousands of supporters are gathering in coordinated house parties across the country next week. (Meanwhile, today the transition team launched a new feature, "Open for Questions," encouraging citizens to post governance questions on Change.gov.) ...

Matt Lewis: New Web Site Takes Questions From Public
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... : An Obama aide points out to us that the Obama transition team has just rolled out an innovative new feature on its Web site, hoping to carry through on the President-elect's campaign promises of greater government transparency. It's a page entitled "Open For Questions," in which anyone can submit questions to the transition and, subsequently, to the administration. Idea: This site is just begging for us to visit and ask about the extent of Obama’s relationship with Blagojevich. ... Oh yeah, you might also want to note that Obama should immediately disclose details of any ...

Change.gov Takes Questions
The Caucus — ... , which allows users to submit questions and then vote on the ones they most want answered, went live on Wednesday. The tool, “Open for Questions,” already appears to be getting traffic. As of Wednesday afternoon, users sent in roughly 1,000 questions and logged more than 70,000 votes, and those numbers were climbing higher by the minute. The Obama transition team said that some of the most popular questions would be answered “on a regular basis.” Leading the pack was this submission from Diana in New Jersey: “What will you do to establish transparency and safeguards against ...

Blagojevich questions censored on Transition site
Ben Smith's Blog — ... President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched "Open for Questions," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list. ...

Just mean even for asking the question.
Corrente — ... The Transition today launched "Open for Questions," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing some to the top of the list. ...

Obama Transition Web Site 'Open for Questions' -- Except on Blagojevich
Political Punch — ... Obama Transition Web Site 'Open for Questions' -- Except on Blagojevich December 10, 2008 10:03 PM News organizations still have plenty of questions for President-elect Obama and his Transition Team about their involvement and possible conversations with Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Apparently so do many Americans. The Obama Transition Team launched its new "Open for Questions" tool today on the transition Web site Change.gov today. "This new tool will allow anyone to ask and vote on questions they have for the transition team," says the OTT's press release. As of Wednesday night, ...

Getting Rid Of Uncomfortable Questions
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — So, at the Obama transition site the President-elect's team is entertaining questions concerning the issues of the day. For its pains, Team Obama is being confronted with a whole host of questions concerning the Blagojevich scandal and matters associated with it. So, what happense in response? ...

Getting Rid Of Uncomfortable Questions
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... So, at the Obama transition site the President-elect’s team is entertaining questions concerning the issues of the day. For its pains, Team Obama is being confronted with a whole host of questions concerning the Blagojevich scandal and matters associated with it. ...

Obama Is Not Open For Questions About Blagojevich
Politics Daily — ... Open for Questions is a subsection of Barack Obama's change.gov website in which users can ask anything they want of the President-Elect. The community then votes the questions up or down, kind of like the popular bookmarking sites ...

Obama Throws Questions About Blagojevich Under the Bus
Gateway Pundit — ... reported that the new President-elect Barack Obama's Transition website page "Open for Questions" is banning questions about Obama's association with his good friend Rod Blagojevich: ...

Obama's Transition Website Censoring Questions About Blagojevich
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Although the "Open for Questions" page was launched Wednesday stating "The Obama-Biden Transition wants to hear from you," readers have been quick to shelter the president-elect from inquiries relating to Blago.  ...

New Transition Q&A Tool Doesn't Get Too Nasty; It Gets Too Nice
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... , launch a function called "Open for Questions" that allows users to submit questions for the transition team as well as vote up questions from other users they want answered and vote down questions they don't. As of this writing there have been 492,648 votes on 6,241 questions from 9,156 people. The transition hasn't made it clear how or when the most popular questions will be answered. But if senior staffers answer the top questions in good faith (including the uncomfortable ones), it will be a big step for open government. And if they mandate that some percentage ...

Daily Digest: America Has a Few (Thousand) Things to Ask Obama
techPresident — Transition is Open for Questions -- Most of Them, At Least: Change.gov's Open for Questions feature opened for business just yesterday morning, as I reported. Already, its first scandal! A few dozen queries about the suddenly infamous deal-making governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, are being "censored," writes Politico's Ben Smith. What's happening is that Change.govers are flagging Blago Qs as "inappropriate," which hides them from the display of questions. As I ...

Asking questions, and flagging them
Ben Smith's Blog — A couple of analysts whose opinions I respect, including John Cole, criticized my item yesterday on what I see as an abuse of the "flagging" function on Obama's "Open for Questions" site. I wrote about the ability of some readers to take a highly-rated, not obviously inappropriate questions -- like the one above, which you can see got lots of votes within the system -- and "flag" the item as "inappropriate." The system appears automatically to remove those questions from the main page, and leave them ...

Meta-flagging
Ben Smith's Blog — ... A reader notes that users of Obama's "Open for Questions" site have flagged as inappropriate a question about flagging comments as inappropriate. ...

Open for Questions: If They're Easy Enough
Moonbattery — ... The Obamination Administration promises to be a laugh riot. It hasn't even started yet, and already the Moonbat Messiah has us rolling on the floor with an official web page of The Office of the President-Elect entitled "Open Government • Open for Questions" — at which questions regarding BHO's association with Rod Blagojevich are getting flagged as inappropriate and removed. Look what ...

Andrew Sargus Klein: Obama's Monitor-Side Chats
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... actions were filed against the local mill. It’s a serious breach of the social contract between the government and its public. The digitization and streamlining of government data, websites and accessibility could very well be a crucial factor in rejuvenating the country. Obama’s transition team has already set up an online public forum for submitting questions to the incoming Administration. As Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic put it: "Open For Questions" will probably be a vehicle for the Obama grassroots ...

Change.gov's Latest: Citizen's Briefing Book
techPresident — ... Here's how it works. With a Change.gov account, you can suggest an idea on any topic, or award or deduct 10 points (Why 10 rather than 1 or 100? Dunno) from existing ideas you favor or disfavor. The top rated ideas, said senior Obama aide Valerie Jarrett in a video introducing the project, will be compiled into a briefing book to be given to Barack Obama once he takes office. Citizens' Briefing Book joins Open for Questions and ...

Daily Digest: Walking the Participatory Government Walk
techPresident — ... and Open for Questions, this stands out for replicating a standard element of how politics happens day-to-day: the policy briefing book staffers prepare for their bosses. And that familiarity might make the results of this citizen-driven project easier to slot into how governing gets done. ...

New Director of Citizen Participation Brings Google-ology to 1600 Penn
techPresident — ... . Launched barely over a week ago, the Obama Administration's online home is missing much of the interactivity that made Change.gov such a breakthrough in how an American elected official mixes it up with the people he or she represents. Change.gov projects like Open for Questions, ...