• Flash mobs are happening today in DC in support of Iran protesters. Not to harsh on pro-democracy civic action or anything, but if you announce via press release doesn't it lose some of that flash mob magic?
• The photo above is from 2007 "Thriller for Peace" flash mob in San Francisco. Somehow seemed appropriate. (Photo by alexthompson)
• We've been tracking the conversation about whether to allow cameras into the Supreme Court, in the context of the Sotomayor confirmation hearing. Not that we'd ever allow legal systems in other lands color our thinking or anything, but FWIW the highest court in the UK has decided to allow its hearings to be televised.
• e-government fatigue meets the blurring of government.
• The RNC new media team tries framing health care reform as a presidential experiment.
• The FCC announces -- via its headache-making and Word-happy FCC.gov website -- that Harvard's Berkman Center will be conducting a comparative study of various approaches to boosting access to high-speed Internet, the better for the commission to create a national broadband plan. In the interest of creating a more transparent FCC, the study's results will be made public. Great! Can we have it in HTML?
• Firedoglake needs help tracking webcasts of the health care markups.
• Two new guides -- here and here -- to getting broadband money.
• Gaming and open governance.
• The EPA has a neat geo-local My Environment site. (via Laural Ruma)
• And DOT edits some blog text to lose a reference to "citizen lobbyists."

(With Micah Sifry)