This is a must watch and read! Last week I posted the coverage from Robert Scoble interviewing Representative Culberson. There are a few using technology on Capitol Hill and the Congressman wants to use it to keep in touch with constituents and keeping everyone updated in real time. Here he is at work, talking to Fox News and a few others. It is interesting to watch the media, who has not seen the technology yet! There’s also another video with the Congressman talking to the Wall Street Journal on his Qik Site. After the live show, you can watch the archives from the site. When broadcasting live, people can type in live questions too, so you really have some nice interaction. Nice to see some of sites in Washington on video. Congressman Culberson does not want to 
be censored! No matter what your affiliation is, you have to enjoy the show of enlightenment here.
You just have to get into the entire scenario here! From my side of the coin, I thought this would be great as an example for the FDA to issue their RSS updates via Twitter too. They may not be ready for Prime Time Cell Phone live casting yet with Qik, but updates would be great via Twitter in real time. I just recently started using Twitter for the Medical Quack and it has already started reaching out to those who want to be updated on the posts and I added FriendFeed. Some physicians have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon too.
Scroll down below to read from Robert’s post on more about how this all got started and I posted his interview from last week here with Andrew Feinberg and Representative Culberson. This looks to be real big move to bring some transparency to Washington! It’s not any different than it is in healthcare though, those who are unfamiliar, are a bit uneasy and not sure how to manage and deal with new technology, (I get that with Tablet PCs all the time in the fact that some think the Tablet and myself are some what evil in nature) and now the story is up and published in the New York Times -the debate is on fire. BD
“WASHINGTON — It began with a twitter from one of Capitol Hill’s best-known technophiles.”
“I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen’s ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc — outrageous and I will fight them,” Representative John Culberson, Republican of Texas, wrote last Tuesday on his personal page on the online text-messaging site Twitter, where he posts a daily, rapid-fire log of his thoughts. Messages on Twitter are called tweets. What started as a micro-protest on Mr. Culberson’s Twitter page became a macro-conflict on Capitol Hill with the two sides feuding on blogs, Blackberries and the old-fashioned way — face-to-face meetings in the halls of Congress. Even there technology has become a weapon in the debate.
“The New York Times, tomorrow, has an article about the controversy over using Internet communications tools like Qik and Twitter and whether they should be allowed to be used by members of Congress. Both Qik and Twitter should be thanking Congressman John Culberson (that’s him, being Qik interviewed by me and Andrew Feinberg). You can read his Twitter account here and you can watch his Qik videos here. It’s amazing how this all started when Andrew Feinberg and I interviewed Culberson just a couple of weeks ago. Andrew broke this story and deserves the credit.”
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