IP Democracy: Presidential Debates to Take Place on Web

With blogs, social networking, live video conferences, YouTube-posted videos and even SecondLife campaigns swirling around the 2008 presidential candidates, it was inevitable that someone would host an online presidential debate. That someone is three entities — Yahoo!, Huffington Post and Slate magazine, which announced this morning two online-only presidential debates that will be hosted by PBS’s Charlie Rose.

The first (one for the Democrats and one for the Republicans) is slated for Labor Day and will appear at least on Yahoo!’s “destination” for all things related to the campaign, Yahoo! Elections, if not all three sites. What’s weird is that neither Huffington Post nor Slate have posted any ruminations on this novel debate, or at least none that I can find on either site.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on April 23, 2007 2:01 PM to IP Democracy