• xkcd's cynical take on the value of an online political education. (via @alisavino)
• How perfect is it that it's a status update about breakfast -- the exact sort inane online chatter that we're all supposedly wasting our time with -- that springs a guy from legal trouble? "Where’s my pancakes,' read Rodney Bradford’s Facebook page..."
• Mindy Finn has a rich and deep insider's look at the McDonnell campaign's online efforts.
• David "stupid networks" Isenberg has joined up with the FCC to advise them on broadband strategy.
• Have we mentioned that the iTunes store is Apple's personal playground? The company rejects an iPhone app for portraying public figures in what it says is unflattering ways.
• A Cuban blogger is beaten, and the U.S. objects.
• Glenn Beck gets into a domain name spat.
• A scholarship in honor of Neda Soltan, the woman whose death in the streets of Tehran was captured on YouTube, has angered some in Iran.
• The patent chief gets a blog.
• And meet TinyThom.as, a short linker for the Library of Congress' legislative directory.

(With Anthony Russomano)