Via Politico's Morning Score, two microsites today: You Don't Know Mitt, from Think Progress, and Code Red Ink, a National Republican Congressional Committee site in support of a balanced budget amendment that also asks visitors to upload their own stories in support. The only problem? As of this morning, the NRCC site asks visitors to back an "ammendment" — which is one "m" too many for something that amends the Constitution.

On Friday I wrote about the White House's response to criticism of its e-petition site, "We the People." At NextGov, Joseph Marks moves the ball some more by talking with folks from America Speaks, one of several organizations collecting feedback on the platform.

Robo-calls may be coming to a cellphone near you.

Unless techPresident reader Shaun Dakin and signers of his petition on the PopVox platform get their way.

Talking Points Memo's Ryan J. Reilly reports Friday: "The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Herman Cain chief of staff Mark Block over allegations his former group Prosperity USA footed the bill “for tens of thousands of dollars in expenses for such items as iPads, chartered flights and travel to Iowa and Las Vegas” to help get the Cain campaign off the ground." (Via Rick Hasen)

Retargeting done through email, not just through a cookie picked up at some other website.

Ben Smith's go-to blog expands to include media coverage with the help of new Politico hire Dylan Byers.

At Threat Level, Bill Wasik announces Crowd Control, a new series advancing a feature story in Wired's January 2012 issue:

For a feature story in Wired’s January 2012 issue, I’ve spent the past few months thinking about the nature of physical crowds in the digital age. In this series of posts, called “Crowd Control,” I’ll be semi-regularly posting some of my research and observations. Surveying social science on the subject, most of the interesting questions boil down, fundamentally, to this one: *Who* do we become, collectively, when we come together?

Freedom of information websites spread around the world.

O'Reilly Media co-founder and MAKE Magazine founder Dale Dougherty was honored as a White House "Champion of Change."

Stop thinking about politics long enough to read this interview with William Gibson. (Via O'Reilly Radar)

More testimony from Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was released recently. The Hill's Gautham Nagesh has more.