For September 27:
Video:
David Kobierowski <cleanair999@yahoo.com> e-mail on June 29, 2007: I can also film it for Pubilc Access TV...etc
Rudy Malveaux making a documentary comparing citizen voices to political rhetoric.

From Bob Cox, Media Bloggers Association, e-mail June 30, 2007:

PBS really liked how things came together with the bloggers. We had a great group on site and people really like the aggregated feed. And we did it all with less than a week's lead time (and in your case we had less than a day). We've been asked to do this again for the GOP event. Now we have 3 months to work on the next one and so take what we've learned and apply it to the September event. Maybe there will even be some sort of event for the general election. My hope is that we can directly integrate the feed into the PBS site (there was just NO time), do more promotion, get more bloggers involved and come with some creative ideas to expand on things like what you did in Texas - basically offering PBS satellite groups where lots of new voices are heard.

I would like to bring you more directly into the loop as we look at the fall - and maybe think about how you could help people elsewhere in the country involved so we do not end up with an East Coast/beltway bias.

I really love hearing that you were actually introducing people to blogging for the first time. That may be the best thing of all!

From Silona: Use Twitter (Per Jon, twitter not best choice because you have to register)
Liza, founder of culture kitchen set up a chat using phpfreechat this may be a better choice.

There needs to be a research component to this. Someone like David Ryfe analyzing what citizens are saying in real time and online. Can we develop a protocol that the sites can use to report on their in-person discussions and the collate the online discussions (twitter? blog?) in such a way that it is timed with the debate so we know what people are referencing.

Bloggers:
Lillian Stevens may blog