Campaign 2.0

This year we’ve seen a lot of push from candidates to incorporate social networking into their campaigns, either to appear hip, or to truly connect with the web 2.0 folks. The big problem seen by the youtube and similar debates is the filtering of user submitted questions by journalists. According to an article on wired today, all of that is about to change.

 ”A new effort aims to change all that. Launched Wednesday, 10 Questions is soliciting video questions on four of the most popular video-sharing sites and placing them in a Digg-like tool that lets the public vote them up or down. Ultimately the 10 highest-ranking videos will be submitted unedited to each of the presidential candidates, who can then produce a video response.”

I took a quick look at 10 questions, it appears to  be an interesting concept. Beyond it’s obvious goal, I wonder if it might also be an opportunity for people new to politics to get an idea of what society is feeling about the campaign and the world in an environment they are comfortable with.

What do you think?