iPod Lobbying

Which works better for a member of Congress: trying to explain something to them or letting them figure it for themself?
bq.But in yesterday’s Commerce hearings, two Senators altered the course of events. First MIT grad John Sununu of New Hampshire said that government mandates “always restrict innovation” and then 82-year-old Ted Stevens of Alaska talked about the iPod he’d gotten for Christmas and put the RIAA’s Mitch Bainwol on the spot about whether his proposal would break Stevens’ ability to move digital radio programs to his iPod and listen to them in the most convenient way (it would). – Cory Doctorow The logical next step, then, is to see that more members of Congress actually understand just what an iPod is and what it can do for them. Ipac has stepped in to do just that. That seems like a good idea to me.