• Military blogs go on a black out to protest restrictions.
• Announcing Open Gov West, co-hosted by the city of Seattle and featuring participants from both sides of the border.
• Is the Obama campaign strategy of (largely) ignoring progressive blogs coming to bite them back now?
• Maybe not.
• Musings about how the split in the progressive blogosphere over the compromise health reform package seems to mirror the divide over the launching of the Iraq War.
• The Republican National Committee's "Listen to Me" video contest wants to know what you want to say to Democratic senators about health care reform.
• Rachel Maddow has her way with the GOP's recent URL shrinker woes.
• Related: Check out GOP.com's gallery of "Republican Heroes." A diverse bunch, I had only heard of just over half of them, which may or may not be the point.
• Facebook uses surname analysis to assess that its user base in the U.S. is growing more ethnically diverse.
• Google's Measurement Lab releases the first batch of data from its effort to ask people to test their own broadband speeds.
• A growing list of who's faking it on Twitter.
• Blackberry blackout!
• And just in case you were wondering what presidential latkes look like.

(With Micah Sifry)