• Some pretty remarkable video of the normally brashly suave Italian Prime Minister looking dazed and confused after an attack is tearing it up on YouTube.
• Meanwhile, a recent video clip is circulating that shows Joe Lieberman saying something about different about health care buy-ins than he seems to be saying today.
• The Supreme Court has opted to take up a case on whether employees have a right to expect that their text messages sent on their work equipment remain private.
• In case you need proof that the world is going mobile, and fast, how's this little nugget from the U.S. Census Bureau: the number of text messages sent more than doubled from 2007 to 2008, going from 48 billion to 110 billion.
• Tweetminster aims to "measur[e] the pulse of UK politics in real time.
• Have a looksee at the entrants in New York City's Big Apps contest.
• There's a scramble going on for the soul -- and fundraising potential -- of the Tea Party movement.
• Researchers find that online censorship is on the march.
• Senator Claire McCaskill doesn't much appreciate when you tweet her again and again and again.
• Guidelines from the Citizen Media Law Project for when you find yourself wanting to tweet or liveblog from court.
• The National University of Ireland (Galway) and American University are interested in your thoughts on U.S. government websites.
• And tonight is the night that the climate change questions collected on YouTube will be put to a select bunch in Copenhagen.

(With Micah Sifry)