10Questions Update: Global Warming, Diplomacy, and Nigerian Dwarf Goats
By Joshua Levy, 11/12/2007 - 7:09pm

With two more days and a handful of hours to go, 10Questions is continuing to enjoy a healthy level participation and interest.

We had about 3,000 unique visitors — a thousand of whom were new voters — over the weekend who added 5,000 more votes, bringing our totals to just more than 90,000 votes and 25,600 voters.

About 10 new videos were added as well, including one quirky — but important — question.

YouTube user hamesfarmer uploaded a video titled “Goats for Freedom” that, despite its eccentric title, is asking about the National Animal Identification System, which hamesfarmer says would be a threat to small farms. The star of the video isn’t the farmer, however: it’s Mudslide, the Nigerian dwarf goat:

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It's a family affair: Alan John Mills, a YouTube user from Toronto, asks a question about using solar thermal technology. His daughter Sheila also posts a question. “Is there any more important issue today than global climate change?,” she asks.

And Kate Daniels, the Founder and Executive Editor of the Women’s International Perspective, asks questions posed by women from around the world about subjects like military action and diplomacy, farm subsidies, and the Kyoto Protocol. You can find a full list of participants and their questions on the WIP blog.

In an editorial in this Sunday’s Boston Globe, Dan Gillmor laments the state of the presidential debates and praises 10Questions as the best iteration yet of the online presidential debate. His idea: produce a 21st-century version of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which the candidates produce one-on-one debates and put the videos online for us to mash up.

With two more days and a handful of hours to go, 10Questions is continuing to enjoy a healthy level participation and interest.



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