Clearing the Cache: Keeping .Gov Weird

Nancy Scola | June 26, 2009 - 12:27pm | Email This!

You owe it to yourself to click play, really you do.
Thirty dollars or more to Organizing for America gets you a limited-edition "Health Care '09" t-shirt: "When it comes to the fight to reform health care, millions of grassroots supporters are ready to stand up and be counted. This limited edition 'Health Care '09' T-shirt is a great way to show your support — and make sure we have the resources we need to win real reform." Limited edition is right. Health care reform this year or bust, baby.
You can wear your shirt to this weekend's Organizing for America National Health Care Day of Service.
OFA also wants you to call Congress over today's energy bill.
Sunlight Labs calls its Recovery.gov bid "failure" a teaching moment.
Speaking of Recovery.gov, ReadWriteWeb explores the site's failings.
Obama floats the idea of an online citizenship checker.
Five tenets driving the New York State Senate's open government push, and a look at how the CIO's office is moving ahead despite chaos in Albany.
Iraq Deputy Prime Minister and ardent tweeter Barham Salih launches his own website.
Genachowski finally headed to the FCC, confirmed yesterday.
John Geraci wants help renaming the open government-ish movement in a way that captures what's happening beyond actual government.
This is turning into a really long Clearing the Cache, isn't it?
The New York Times' Peter Baker assesses the HuffPo/Pitney question brouhaha.
NextGov creates an all-fed Twitter feed.
Did the Daily Show break transparency?
Using Facebook Actions to do a Sotomayor push.
Stay with me, we're almost done...
Applying the cute cat theory to Iran.
Farhad Manjoo considers the glass-half-empty take to how technology has shaped events in Iran.
One potential tick in the not so great column: reports that the Iranian government is trying to crowdsource the identification of protesters.
Speaking of crowdsourced IDing, NPR's Dollar Short is asking for helping figuring out who's who amongst the lobbyists assembled at a recent Senate health care hearing. (Thanks Bryan Campen)
Hey, it worked for Iran, didn't it? The New York Times tries live-blogging Michael Jackson's death.
A passing which seems to have broken the Internet.
And the Iran-meets-Michael mash-ups were, in retrospect, inevitable: "It doesn't matter who's wrong or right, just beat iiiiiiitttt..."

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