Government needs to encourage more debate and involve more citizens in its processes, he said. "People care passionately about these things, and they obviously have a lot of time on their hands," he joked about bloggers and Internet users who held candidates responsible for misstatements and lies during the campaign.

He also called on government to embrace video, blogging and other online technologies. "Government hasn't embraced, generally, the tools we use every day," he said. "It's time."