• Thanks to the miracle that is broadband Internet, now, finally, you can keep an eye on Craig Newmark's furry friends all day long.
• New York City's Big Apps contest draws 112, well, apps.
• The team behind Global Voice launches a transparency network.
• Obama's Twitter account breaks the three million mark.
• Hey, whatever happened to Second Life?
• The website's of Iran's Ahmadinejad and the EU president get hacked.
• British conversatives are working on drafting a manifesto using Google Moderator.
• Sunlight matches White House visitor logs with Google, Wikipedia, and LittleSis.
• And "transparency" makes the annual list of word's banished from the Queen's English.

(With Micah Sifry and Nick Judd)