Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining that TVR's getting more
coverage than VSWiki with the tech crowd. I think it's a great thing
... and yeah, you're probably right: with TVR, the technology is the
story, but that's not the case any more in the social computing crowd
with wikis.
In terms of the political stuff, i'm not sure it's just that people are
too busy. Take this post from the FDL home page --
http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/29/elections-coming-down-to-the-wire/
... great post, and it leads with election protection information which
is fantastic. it also has two other links to voting-related stories
and asks "what's up with early voting where you are"; and any of these
would be great places to mention TVR. There are 133 comments; no
mention of TVR. so ... people are finding the time to talk about
voting issues, and discover stories to link to, but TVR (and VSWiki)
aren't on their radar.
jon