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that lets Web surfers e-mail questions to Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman, register to vote online, or volunteer to help the campaign.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that the use of the internet is spreading so rapidly that we're basically reaching out to anyone who wants to log on and hear what we have to say or interact on some of the various features of the site.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Karenna Gore Schiff, Daughter of Al Gore\u003cbr/\u003eTwenty seven year old Karenna is an old pro at this kind of campaigning.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I am particularly concerned with reaching out to young people, to younger voters, and I am the head of GoreNet, which is a grass roots network, and we have a big presence on the website and that is definitely a way to reach out to those people who may be turned off from politics, maybe don't necessarily want to tune into the nightly news coverage, or read the papers, but might just go to a website to see what's up with it, what the interactive features are, and also just to see the objective data on there, in terms of speeches that have been made, votes that have been cast, the platform, the stand on issues. It's a good way to get solid information.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Karenna Gore Schiff, Daughter of Al Gore\u003cbr/\u003eBut it's not just young people tuning in to the internet and the websites focusing on the convention.\u003cbr/\u003eGeorge Tucker, a four-time delegate from Ohio, gave the Voter.com kiosk a try, and searched for information on the Gore daughters.\u003cbr/\u003eWithin 30 seconds, he had accessed the information he wanted.\u003cbr/\u003eThe kiosks are everywhere in the Staples center, giving delegates a chance to delve a little deeper.\u003cbr/\u003eTucker was impressed with the availability of the kiosks and being able to log on to the internet with such ease.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it's real good, especially for somebody my age that didn't grow up with it, we have a little bit of harder time. But the new kids coming up, they can just get in there and find out whatever they want and I think that's what we have to start looking for, is to get the younger people involved in the convention and politics and not only get them out working, but get them voting, I think that's the way to do it.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: George Tucker, delegate, Toledo, Ohio\u003cbr/\u003eThe explosion of web coverage comes at a time when the major television networks are scaling back their plans to broadcast the conventions.\u003cbr/\u003eNetworks find themselves hard pressed to draw a large, broad-based audience to a show whose ending is known in advance.\u003cbr/\u003eThat's where the web comes in.\u003cbr/\u003eInstead of appealing to broad audiences, the internet can \"narrowcast\" and target information to special-interest groups and those with a fondness for convention minutia.\u003cbr/\u003ePseudo.com conducted the first interactive webcast of a convention when it appeared at the Republican convention in Philadelphia earlier this month.\u003cbr/\u003eThe website provides more than round-the-clock coverage.\u003cbr/\u003eViewers can participate in live chats and programming polls.\u003cbr/\u003ePseudo.com combines streaming video, real-time chat, and feeds of various multimedia content, updated regularly.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"If you just want to watch speeches on your Sony Trinitron, then by all means, turn on CNN, turn on MSNBC, but if you want to actually get down and get dirty and get into the discussion, the internet allows you to do that, Pseudo allows you to do that, some of the others folks that are around here in Internet Avenue allow you to get to the heart of the issues.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Jeanne Meyer, Senior Vice-President, Pseudo.com\u003cbr/\u003eAnd while Al Gore may not have actually \"invented\" the internet, his name is definitely on it, at least at AlGore.com.\u003cbr/\u003e Los Angeles, California - August 14th, 2000 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of convention floor, pan to www.dems2000.com painted on wall\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of algore.com displayed on electronic billboard\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot of internet sky boxes, zoom in to Slingshot Networks\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of Pseudo.com sky box\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot of convention floor, zoom in to a 360-degree \"be here\" camera (tiny silver gadget perched on top of small pillar)\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot of boxes, pan down to Karenna Gore Schiff doing web interview\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of computer, zoom out to Schiff in interview\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Karenna Gore Schiff, Daughter of Al Gore\u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway, photographer\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Karenna Gore Schiff, Daughter of Al Gore\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot of man trying out the Voter.com kiosk\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up of kiosk screen\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of man trying out the Voter.com kiosk\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various close ups of main computer screen\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Tucker, delegate, Toledo, Ohio\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various close ups of computer displaying Pseudo.com website\u003cbr/\u003e17. Demonstration of website\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jeanne Meyer, Senior Vice-President, Pseudo.com\u003cbr/\u003e19. 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