Michael’s latest focuses on net neutrality, and in particular on Tory efforts to pretend that they take the issue seriously and are even-handedly developing policy. What got my attention was one little nugget that goes into my Hall of Shame; the latest entry on the list of the (really, rather dismayingly creative) capacity that politicos have for disguising their mendacity and twisting reality into pretzels to avoid taking responsibility for their decisions:I conclude by noting that after reports of the internal government position on net neutrality leaked out, Bloc MP Paul Crête raised the issue last Wednesday in the House of Commons, asking [Tory Industry Minister] Bernier to commit to the principle of net neutrality. Bernier declined to do so, instead citing a recent Ipsos-Reid public opinion poll that he said demonstrated that 75 percent of Quebec residents support his plans for telecom reform. In addition to mistaking polls for policies, Bernier did not mention that only 14 percent of respondents were even aware of the government’s telecom policy changes and that the survey made no mention of Internet access issues.

As far as campaign sites go – heck, as far as most mainstream sites go – the new site is filled to the brim with news ways to interact with the campaign.Fred Wilson seems to have problems with the video on the site and says it only works with IE (a couple of his commenters had problems as well), but it worked fine for me with both Firefox and Safari (and one of Fred’s commenters says the same thing)…. I don’t know why anyone would want to, but perhaps, I suppose.And while Fred likes the site’s blogging tools, Mathew wonders about the effort to get folks to use the social media tools on the site, rather than using tools that allow users to integrate their online presences elsewhere. I suspect the answer to that is that the campaign is trying to reach the 99% of the population who thinks a Squidoo is something you ride on in Minnesota in January, and that Flickr is what your lights do in New York before a brownout.Still, all of that’s nickle-and-dime stuff in the grand scheme of things, IMO…. I think that change like this is a great thing, even though there will be lots of complaining along the way.The real issue, to my mind, is whether the political process as it now is is compatible with the core values of social media.