Liveblogging the Personal Democracy Forum

I’m live at the Personal Democracy Forum, and going to do a crappy job liveblogging. I’m more here for another company, but I always like to put my ideas / notes on the site. Thanks for bearing with.

Right now, a spoksperson for the Pew Internet research group is up, talking… stats… Interesting stats from the slide? 92 million american adults use government websites. 52 million research issues. 32 million have emailed jokes about candidates. 25 million fact checked candidates in 2006 online. 21 million have watched political videos online as of february 2007. Four million donated to candidates online in 2006. Two million write about politics on their blogs. (not me!)

15% of americans say the internet was a crucial source for their political knowledge in 2006.

Broadband growth = political spread. 1/3rd of the political internet usage growth can be attributed to broadband. Under age 35 broadband users find the internet more important for their political knowledge than newspapers.

The big question still? Local races now have the ability to be hyper covered, but will it be useful?