For Internet politics, the controversial becomes conventional very quickly.

Until recently, there were heated disputes over whether political blogs had any impact on American government. While academics still debate the contours of that impact, much of the media and political establishment now seem to accept that blogs and online activism have an impact on politics. Credit the wired Obama campaign, or the media learning curve, or liberal bloggers' knack for being right and early on Iraq, financial regulation, economic populism and the Democrats' 50-State Strategy.

Whatever the overlapping factors, this Sunday's New York Times Book Review has a salient example of blogs' ascension within the conventional wisdom.

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We're excited to announce the launch of 10Questions.com, a new kind of online presidential forum, one that aims to make the most of what the internet has to offer to politics. On 10Questions.com anyone will be able to directly pose video questions to the candidates for President and choose which ones they most want answered. Candidates will be able answer in detail and without the time limits imposed by traditional televised or on-stage debates. And citizens in turn will be able to give the candidates feedback on whether they actually answer those questions.