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• Buy: tele-townhall stock. Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Paul Kanjorski isn't the only one expressing the notion that phone conferences capture the intimacy of in-person events, minus the potential embarrassment factor: "I'm not going to set myself up for, you know, nuts to hit me with a camera and ask stupid questions."
• Color TNR's Jonathan Cohn impressed with Obama administration's new HealthCare.gov. "Sometimes government fails, as it did (spectacularly) with the oversight of offshore oil drilling," blogged Cohen. "But sometimes government works really well."
• Maybe mobile, other mediums can save Afghanistan.
• Long-time Democratic/progressive new media figure Ali Savino hooks up with SalsaLabs to head up their SalsaMarket product. Think "apps store" for the widely-used progressive platform.
• Man dressed as a donkey celebrates Independence Day at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá.
• Markos gets blacklisted from MSNBC for tweeting with Joe Scarborough.
• The Philippine judiciary comes aboard Twitter and Facebook, triggering hope in some that greater justice will follow close behind.
• Have you found yourself judging what your brunch-mates audience might be?
• The American Prospect's Tim Fernholz reflects upon how sunlight -- and Sunlight -- changed the way that financial reform has gone down.
• Post-Drudge swarm, TSA rolls back a web ban on "controversial opinion."
• Some 85% of a collection of big names in tech think that tech has been a force for good in their own social worlds.
• And tweeting Holdingford, Florida.

(With Micah Sifry)