A week ago, the Obama-Biden transition team solicited ideas for improving health care. Today, the team responded to our comments with a video from Tom Daschle (recently nominated for Secretary of Health & Human Services) and Lauren Aronson.

(Comment preemption: Yes, Tom Daschle's glasses are funny.)

Here's the gist of what they said:

• They got 3500 comments.
• One person recommended we focus on preventive care
• Another proposed a "Health Corps," akin to the Peace Corps. They say they will look into it.
• Others mentioned cost control and insuring employees.
• Daschle says they have already begun implementing some of the ideas, but he does not say which ones or whether those implementations were the direct result of this solicitation.

Is this video something that we tech-politics geeks should be excited about? I'm cautiously optimistic. The optimism is due only to the fact that the team is demonstrating Web literacy. I'm cautious because of the PR nature of the message, which is essentially a "Thank you for your ideas" in video format.

For a transition that officially began three weeks ago, it's fine work. We've been very eager to scorn Change.gov as failing to live up to our hopes, as if we expected interactive miracles to start happening on November 5. It is early yet.

Truth be told, there is nothing gutsy or innovative about this video. But if past administrations are our metric, then this team is doing well. Communiques like this one are a good start to a strategy that will probably get more and more risky in very small increments. When it comes to how the White House uses the Web, our community's expectations are higher than that of the general public. So we may have to wait a few months before Change.gov (or WhiteHouse.gov) impresses us.