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Daily Digest: Is What Obama Knows of Us Worth Worrying Over?
techPresident — ... , a legislative face-off between bills before Congress. (Note: our Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry are advisors to the Sunlight Foundation, which funds Open Congress.) Among the more interesting findings of the trial run of the project is that users of Open Congress are most turned on right now by civil liberties -- a finding similar across some of the other "you decide" sites that have sprung up of late, from Change.gov to ...

Drug War Leads "Open for Questions" At Change.gov
Open Left - Front Page — ... Question not addressed elsewhere: Is this the most pressing problem we face as a nation? No, obviously not. Is it a problem we face as a nation? Yes, obviously so. Is it the sort of question among the top vote getters at change.gov that is least likely to be addressed at one of Obama's news conferences, or on his website? Probably. For example, the fourth ranking question, "will you lift the ban on Stem Cell research in your first 100 days in office?" has already and repeatedly been answered in the affirmative by the incoming administration. The third-ranking question, ...

Kudos to the Change.gov New Media Team
techPresident — ... -Creation of "Open for Discussion," a gigantic open forum for people to share the questions for the transition and vote the best ones to the top, which garnered 978,947 votes on 10,303 questions from 20,460 people in its first run this week, and which is due back next week. (Sources tell me to expect some useful tweaks to the Google Moderator tool that is running the discussion, including the ability to link to individual questions. Hopefully they will also find a way to randomize the visibility of top-rated questions so the early leaders don't get so much of an advantage.) ...

Today in The Nation: Open for Questions
The Nation: Top Stories — ... to the top five most popular questions, based on a transparent process that enabled visitors to vote for or against questions submitted by fellow visitors to Change.gov. The 10,300 submitted questions drew about 978,000 votes, with the leading queries focused on marijuana legalization, restoring Constitutional protections, avoiding waste in the financial bailout, Stem Cell research and education. Some more controversial questions, however, did not make the cut. As Politico's Ben Smith first ...

ChangeSameOldShit.gov
HorsesAss.Org — ... The website allowed for users to submit questions through the site about the incoming administration’s agenda. After visitors to the website were able to vote for or against the submitted questions, the following question was the most popular: ...

A Blue-Ribbon Panel, If We're Lucky
Hit & Run — ... policy questions from the public. Over two days, the site "processed over 600,000 votes from more than 10,000 people on more than 7,300 questions," and this was the top question: ...