We propose novel communication medium, a public opinion channel (POC). Its main function is to exchange and to share opinions in a community. It gathers messages from community members, integrates them into a meaningful story, and broadcasts the story to community members. Because the story is summarized, community members can avoid perceiving extreme amount of information. It aids community members so survey opinions in a community and to make a public discussion. Community members send new information about the story to POC again. By this process, information circulates through the community. The POC can be regarded as the next challenge in information and communication technologies. Three issues are discussed: 1) Does the POC facilitate communication in the community? 2) How does it compose stories based on messages from community members? 3) What social effects does it produce?
