10Questions.com had 1,300 unique visits yesterday, with about 6,000 page views. Even with that lower level of traffic, the number of votes on the site continues to grow at a healthy pace, with another 2,000 tallied yesterday.
Also, it looks as though the tweak we made yesterday, of setting the home page to default to showing users only videos that they hadn’t yet voted on, had the effect of spreading votes downward through the whole pool of contributed videos. Of the 142 questions currently on the site, 27 have at least 500 votes each. On the other end of the spectrum, the fewest votes on a video question is 34. We think these are both indications that people are browsing widely around the site, and not just concentrating on the current frontrunners.
The other important thing to note is that of the videos in the top 10 now, while a few seems to be way ahead of the others, it looks like there are any number of videos with, say, around 200-300 net positive votes that could easily end up in the top 10 by November 14, when Round One ends.
Fresh links from bloggers included:
A blogger named Jimmy K., who says on his site that he voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and George Bush in 2004: His question is “why don’t we put none of the above on the ballot?” Kind of understandable with his voting history! http://butthatsjustmyopinion.blogspot.com/2007/11/questions-for-candidates.html
A link from NoGodBlog.com, which describes itself as a “free service for atheists” that suggests a quiet but pitched battle between atheists and a church group over the question, “Is America Unofficially a Theocracy?” The blogger writes, “We used to be in 7th place, but thanks to a church group trying to vote down the video, (an email confirmed this) we have been stuck in 13th place for quite some time.” Fascinating. http://www.atheists.org/nogodblog/index.php/2007/11/02/time_to_think_about_politics
Finally, PRWeek has just published a story on 10Questions: http://www.prweekus.com/10questions-debuts-online-interactive-political-forum/article/58369/