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The Web on the Candidates

The Media Bloggers Association has announced that PBS will be giving bloggers press credentials for next week's Democratic Presidential Forum hosted by Tavis Smiley at Howard University. Although the forum is not a debate, it will feature all eight Democratic candidates, who will answer questions from a panel of journalists. Viewers at home are being encouraged to participate in online forums but it's still unclear exactly how they'll be incorporated into the debate.

In his announcement of the new citizen journalism project OffTheBus, Jay Rosen wrote that "realistically," due to the Democratic backgrounds and physical location of Rosen, Arianna Huffington, Zack Exley, and Amanda Michel, "this is going to be seen as a project originating on the 'blue' side of red-blue politics." TechPresident blogger Patrick Ruffini, writing on his personal blog, finds the project similar to others that have a nonpartisan goal and asks, "are conservatives just perennially late to the party here? Or are the social circles in which the Rosens and Huffingtons run dictating personnel decisions about cool projects and thus perceptions of who is up and down online?" Rosen responded by saying that he never "imported or purported anything about 'bipartisanship'" but the goal is to make the platform open to all. It seems clear that the creators of the project need to reach out to Republican voters and influentials as much as possible in order to ensure balance with the project.