I don't always have something intelligent to add to the conversation, but when I do, it's nice to know that there's at least a chance that I'll be permitted to contribute.

Best of luck to you and I hope to see you tomorrow.

On the surface this sounds great, schmucks like me get to have a say in how a show is made and grown over time. My only real concern here is that this just won't work like you'd want it to. I don't think polling a large number of people for anything works unless you're asking a really specific question, because you can't really make sense of all that data if its general information coming in.

Now if the whole point is just to give the illusion that we are all having a say, that's great. People can feel like they are involved but really everthing that really matters has already been decided and is being decided off camera with experts that know how to make something like this work.

I do think you can adapt the idea of people interacting with the news and Natali as the presenter by simply having them vote up and down on different topics. It is itself an old idea but you only ever see it applied to the news through a single poll that appears later in the show once enough people have called in.

IF you pushed the idea of the single question format you could have viewers control the list of what news is coming up. Lets say I'm on the Natali's web show website. There's a list of topics that are going to be covered. I like the fourth one down. I can just “digg” that and help it rise to the top. Natali is seeing this change as it happens and the show then becomes user driven in real-time as far as the topics go. Push that even further. As each topic begins, have the title of it shown clearly on the side / in the video and very clear and large bars people can vote up and down depending on certain criteria.

Apple launches iPhone 3GS. One bar for how you feel about that product. Others for how you feel about competing products. As Natali talks, people are adding in real-time to the show extra information. I'm learning that something called the pre is really well liked. I see a story later in the show about it, maybe ill vote that up . I'm interacting, but in a way that is simple for me, simple for you but meaningful for the show.

Viewer question/answer just doesn't work on a big scale, it always feel small. There might as well just be one guy off camera on twitter, one guy on facebook and one guy on webcam. When that's all I hear from, to me, it was just 3 people that interacted, probably all I got out of it was waiting to see something I'd tried to add didn't get noticed.

Still what do I know, I look forward to seeing what this new pilot will be like and without a doubt I know Natali is very good at her job so could bring something special to the table here that might become a must watch experience. I've got an open mind, bring it on

Some news shows already do this, but the responses are delayed by hours/days and are featured as a 60-second “segment” rather than a regular part of the show. Natali has an opportunity to use those comments in real time throughout the broadcast, and that could produce a much more interesting result.