Civic Literacy and Digital Engagement An encouraging sign from the increasingly wired White House that they're hearing the critique that not everyone in the circa-2009 U.S. is ready or able to engage online -- submitting YouTube questions to the President online, or interact with a website for voting up or down open government ideas, to highlight two examples. So now they're asking for advice for how to increase citizens' participation in government.
Congress: President's Regulators Still Putting Politics Before Science President George W. Bush, said critics, used the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to override the public interest in science, technology, and other public policymaking with political and business considerations. But President Barack Obama, his supporters say, has taken steps to ensure that the OIRA never gets in the way of science. Or has he?
Moussavi's Broad Blogospheric Appeal Mapping out the links that connect the top two contenders for Iran's presidency -- the hard-line sitting president Mahmood Ahmadinejad and the reformist candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi's -- we see a pattern familiar from the last months of the '08 presidential race in the U.S. Similar to what we saw with Obama just before that vote, Moussavi isn't just being talked about more than his opponent in the blogosphere at large. He's being talked about more in the traditionally non-political parts of that blogosphere. Is Moussavi the Iranian Obama?