A prominent law profesor at Stanford University, Larry Lessig, has an idea for using Web 2.0 to transform Congress. He’s going to use a wiki to separate the good from the, uh, wikid in Congress. (Couldn’t resist.) He hopes to diminish the influence of money by influencing the election campaigns of the 67 members of Congress who are up for election. (Wired article here. Actual website to join up here.) Using

collaborative software that enables vast numbers of geographically-dispersed citizens to become politically active on their own schedule, will enable a new kind of transparency and accountability in political campaigns.

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The project will rely on engaged voters to record and map both the responses by, and the positions of candidates who are running for open seats. The idea is to make what seems like an abstract idea visually tangible through a Google mash-up.

The tubes changes things again.