NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- TechPresident.com announced today that it launched 10Questions.com, a user-generated presidential video debate, in association with the editorial board of The New York Times and MSNBC.com, and the co-sponsorship of more than forty Web sites that span the political spectrum.
10Questions.com gives users the opportunity to submit online video questions addressed to the candidates through a variety of video platforms including YouTube, MySpace, Yahoo and Blip.tv by tagging their video with the word "10Questions." The 10Questions site will then display those videos and enable the public to vote to determine the ten best submissions. At the end of four weeks, the top ten questions will be submitted to all the major candidates. The candidates will have four weeks to submit un-timed video responses to the questions. As those responses are posted, 10Question.com users will be given the opportunity to vote on whether the candidates have answered the questions to their satisfaction.
"The Internet offers our democracy the chance to end the era of sound bite TV politics," said Andrew Rasiej, co-founder and publisher, techPresident. "10Questions.com will address the inherent time limitations of traditional television debates and provide voters with more information on each candidate and his or her issues at the start of the 2008 election cycle."
Users can vote on as many videos as they like, but may only submit one video; user submissions are due by November 14. The entire project will be completed on December 31, 2007.
"The many media sites, online communities and blogs dedicated to promoting this project demonstrate how important this initiative is to facilitating responses from candidates about the major issues of the day across bi-partisan lines," noted Micah L. Sifry, co-founder and editor, techPresident. "It's user involvement in posting and filtering questions to the candidates and the candidates' responses that make 10Questions the first truly people-powered online presidential forum."
The New York Times editorial board will direct users to 10Questions.com through the online opinion section of NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/opinion).
Co-sponsors include: Afro-Netizen Air America AirCongress BlackProf Blip.tv Blogher Buzzmachine Care2 ColorofChange Crooks & Liars CultureKitchen DailyKos E-Democracy.org FireDogLake Free Press Action Fund HotAir Huffington Post Hugh Hewitt Instapundit Latino Pundit Media Bloggers Assoc. Michelle Malkin MSNBC.com MyDD New York Observer Open Left Page One Q Pajamas Media Pam's House Blend Patrick Ruffini Politico Politics Online PoliticsTV PrezVid Racialicious RawStory RedState RightMarch RightWingNews Rocketboom SmartMobs Smirking Chimp TalkingPointsMemo techRepublican The New Homemaker The Truth Laid Bear Townhall Treehugger Vivir Latino
About techPresident.com: techPresident.com is a group blog on how the presidential candidates are using the Web, and how the Web is using them. Written by a cross-partisan array of experienced online political organizers, activists and consultants, it recently won the prestigious Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism. It is a product of the Personal Democracy Forum, the country's leading conference on how technology is changing politics.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Rasiej Micah L. Sifry Founder and CEO Editor 917.359.2426 914.478.8308 Andrew@fon.com MSifry@gmail.com
CONTACT: Andrew Rasiej, Founder and CEO, +1-917-359-2426, Andrew@fon.com; or Micah L. Sifry, Editor, +1-914-478-8308, MSifry@gmail.com
Web site: http://techpresident.com/ http://10questions.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/opinion
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