Jesse Haff and I were inspired by Clay Johnson's post last week about Twitter being the future of email marketing to figure out how Twitter could breathe new life into the boring old petition, the stalwart of email-based activism.

Meet act.ly.

It's only been out for a day and a half, and already it's put Wired in the hot seat for not including enough diversity on their panels, and both Gov. Granholm and Lt. Governor John Cherry of Michigan signed a petition to the Michigan Senate GOP to "keep the Michigan Promise Scholarship."

Here's why act.ly activism is better...