Democracy and the internet

O'Reilly's Digital Democracy Teach-In

This article discusses some of the failures of the Internet community as well as some successes. notably there are Comments from Joe Trippi, a form DEAN campaign manager.
he makes a few observations about Dean's fundraising on the net, and some positive things about Meet Up
Also somewhat discouraging comments from Joi Ito about Weblogs: "When you focus on blogs, there is a loss of community."
Ito and Ethan Zuckerman suggest that other media like talk radio have greater impact on democracy.