The White House released a new video on Friday, tackling another question from last week's virtual town hall with President Obama. White House aides had indicated they would continue to engage citizen questions, as I reported for PDF this week, and the new video features an official for disability policy, Kareem Dale, responding to a video submission about health care for people with disabilities.

Just about everyone has weighed in on the President's first virtual town hall, and my report from a day at the White House is here. Looking forward, here are three thoughts on the next Open for Questions, and picking up on related PDF posts:

1. Don't weed out the weed
Mathew Burton defends the pot questions, explaining how their open, spirited participation does not constitute "gaming" the system - that is the system. "Lack of participation from a broad base of the populace" was the problem, he argues, and next time the White House should avoid the temptation of using tactics "to--ahem--weed out questions." (Somewhere, Joseph Tartakovsky smiled.) If anything, Obama hit the wrong tone by not giving the pot question a serious answer on par with other citizen queries. That tack upset even ardent Obama supporters. It also left Robert Gibbs hitting clean up, as several thoughtful drug policy questions bubbled up in the press briefing that same afternoon.

In the aftermath of Thursday's Virtual Town Hall, most of us in the tech-politics arena have been pondering one question: How do we improve upon this system to create a better virtual democracy experience? The conversation usually comes back to the problem exemplified by the marijuana questions, which were far and away the most popular questions asked of the president. Some thoughts:

To the tech-politics gurus bemoaning the marijuana questions:

"The marijuana people" did not "game" the system. They didn't "sabotage" it. They didn't get advanced notice. There is no (public) evidence of astroturfing or systems exploitation. They played fair. "Sabotage" is shouting from the back of a room during a Senate testimony. All these people did was show up at the polls. It's the same thing you and I do every other November: they voted. If that's sabotage, then senior citizens are incredibly cunning saboteurs. It's fine to look for better ways of building this system. But stop equating fervent yet fair participation with cheating. I see the marijuana questions as a huge success, in two regards.

From the Department of If We Don't Do It, Who Will?, Micah and I will be liveblogging the White House's online town hall in which President Obama will take questions from WhiteHouse.gov's "Open for Questions" experiment. Join us at 11:30am ET today.

The highest-rated query for President-elect Barack Obama over on Change.gov's Open for Questions feature certainly isn't a softball along the lines of "What are you going to name the First Puppy?" It's whether, as president, Obama will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush Administration on everything from torture to wiretapping...Boston Globe's David Talbot looks back at how Blue State Digital became the Obama campaign's go-to web firm, with insight into the Massachusetts-based technology "boiler room" run by BSD's Jascha Franklin-Hodge...Obama may have bested John McCain when it came to campaign tech, but here's a reminder that the GOP isn't sitting around licking its wounds...and more.

The highest-rated query for President-elect Barack Obama over on Change.gov's Open for Questions feature certainly isn't a softball along the lines of "What are you going to name the First Puppy?" It's whether, as president, Obama will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush Administration on everything from torture to wiretapping...Boston Globe's David Talbot looks back at how Blue State Digital became the Obama campaign's go-to web firm, with insight into the Massachusetts-based technology "boiler room" run by BSD's Jascha Franklin-Hodge...Obama may have bested John McCain when it came to campaign tech, but here's a reminder that the GOP isn't sitting around licking its wounds...and more.

Launched at yesterday lunchtime, the second round of Change.gov's Open for Questions -- the Obama transition team's attempt to tap into the questions Americans most want their next president to answer -- has already pulled in 1,753,453 votes from 39,860 people on 33,150 questions...The Nation's Ari Melber sees in Open for Questions a chance to advance question that the press corps seems loathe to ask: will President Obama appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush Administration on torture, warrantless wiretapping, and more?...The Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet is beating up on Obama for his Seat at the Table feature, which posts the printed materials from meetings held by the transition team...and more.

Yeah, we probably should have seen this coming from a mile away. The Obama transition launched a series of house parties and community events to be held between now and the first of the year, focused on gathering together Americans interested in health care reform. And you know you, as it turns out, has a rather keen interest in the topic? Health care industry figures, from insurers like Aetna to drug companies like Pfizer and Merck...Al Giordano is one tough grader. Giordano, proprietor of The Field blog, gives the presidential transition team a big ol' F for its Open for Questions effort, dinging them for delivering "gimmickry, sloganeering, curt and almost snide 'responses'"...The liberal online organization MoveOn is often criticized for being a top-down effort that taps in to our collective desire to exert minimal effort and still stay politically engaged. But the group has put out a call to members to participate in a week-long agenda-setting process...and more.

The New York Times editorial board is urging President-elect Obama to embrace the idea that restoring the U.S.'s rightful place at the vanguard of the Internet could be a centerpiece of his presidential legacy...Anyone kicking in coin to the Presidential Inauguration Committee is finding themselves included in a searchable and sortable online database...As the Nation's Ari Melber reports, the transition team has posted responses to the top five queries that came out of its "Open for Questions" feature, but to what end?...and a good deal more.

That the Obama campaign has a meticulously-gathered collection of data on our shoe sizes and coffee preferences stored in some pulsating brain deep below Chicago should, writes New York Law School's James Grimmelmann in the New Republic, raise concerns...McClatchy's Frank Greve casts a healthily skeptical eye on what, beyond the jittery excitement, Change.gov truly amounts to. Former PdF keynoter and author Clay Shirky is notably enthusiastic, branding the transition site "obviously fantastic." But you can't help but keep from going all-in on when you hear things like what Greve got from Obama press aide Jen Psaki...Long-time activist on the left Bob Fertik, perhaps best known as the force behind Democrats.org, says the questions bubbling up on Change.gov's Open for Questions forum show that Americans haven't joined the media in the trap of obsessing over a scheming and bumbling floppy-haired Illinois governor whose name no one could pronounce last week...and more.