Thursday, January 31, 2008
We don’t usually write about politics in this blog, but I was at a networking meeting of web entrepreneurs on Wednesday and listened to a presentation about Glassbooth.org. The site is timely, especially if you are still undecided about the upcoming primaries.
The founders of Glassbooth are interested in creating innovative ways to access political information, to make the political process more transparent for voters. (Glassbooth: get it?) They created an interactive site where would-be voters take a two-part quiz, ranking personal views on a range of issues and positions. At the end of the quiz, Glassbooth shows which candidates positions most closely match the quiz results on each issue.
For comparison, I also took WBUR’s interactive quiz. Interestingly, a different candidate appeared closer to my preferences than with Glassbooth. Both quizzes take about 10-15 minutes and touch on 10 policy issues that have been widely debated. Even if you have watched the debates (all two million of them), you may still find that you learn something from quiz results.
At the time of the writing of this post, I have no financial relationships with any of the organizations mentioned.
