• Today is Blog Action Day, and it looks like a huge number--nearly 10,000--have signed up to post on climate action issues.
• Most notable in that list, beyond all the usual enviro sites: Prime Minister Gordon Brown's blog, and the official Google blog.

The Next Right's Patrick Ruffini is warning conservative allies about the coming press-pocalypse. Using Bobby Jindal as a model, Ruffini traces attempts to "delegitimize and destroy up-and-coming Republicans" as they resonated through Daily Kos to Keith Olbermann to Talking Points Memo to Politico to the general political consciousness. Oh, he's not upset about it. He wants it. Conservative commentators need to get off their lazy behinds, says Ruffini, and start reporting. His commenters aren't so sure. Some argue that stories about Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers were just too fluffy to get traction. Others make the point that GOP leadership is too weak to do the aggressive oppo pushing that a party in opposition needs to do to earn its version of events an airing. Writes commentator "Cahnman": "Here's a much simpler solution: Don't nominate John McCain ever again."

The Democratic Strategist's Ed Kilgore is out with his critique of RebuildTheParty.com's "10-Point Action Plan to Strengthen and Modernize the Republican Party." That's the rightroots' manifesto authored just after November 4th by Mindy Finn and Patrick Ruffini, two names that should be familiar around these parts.

Obama texts his supporters his choice of VP, is Obama the first "cybergenic" candidate?, What will McCain do for VP?, Obama hits back at two McCain ads, the blogs respond to Edwards' extramarital affair, Bush enjoys women's beach volleyball, and Barack gets "Rick Rolled"

Mark Glaser interviews Patrick Ruffini; Rolling Stone glowingly investigates Obama's grassroots game; Mike Connery at TPMCafe; who's winning the Wikipedia primary?; Flickr for Good launches; and the candidates do some, er, interesting things with splash pages.

Sometime today, I presume, the Obama campaign will reveal its total fundraising haul for the month of February, and everyone will go gaga. Whatever the actual number--$35 million is the low estimate (which would match the Clinton campaign's take), $70 million is Republican consultant and techPresident blogger Patrick Ruffini's plausible prediction (which would be nearly six times John McCain's reported February income)--it's important to put this into more dramatic perspective. He has more individual contributors than the entire large donor pool to federal campaigns and parties in 2000, and nearly as many as in 2004. Already.

More on young voters in 2008; lost votes in California?; Ben Smith shares the labor and the smarts; Real Clear Politics earns some kudos; Matt Stoller reinvents campaign finance reform; Patrick Leahy wants the Founding Fathers online; what went wrong for Mitt Romney; McCain aide shares some secrets; GOP "money-bomb" bombs; Josh reports from Italy; our favorite videos; and some reality checks to end the week.

After the YouTube-CNN Debate, I spent some time in the "Spin Room" talking with folks about their thoughts on the Republican debate. (I did the same thing at the Democratic YouTube debate earlier this year.)

Below, find short vlogs from Ron Paul, Duncan Hunter, Patrick Ruffini, Robert Bluey, Mary Katharine Ham, James Kotecki, Jose Antonio Vargas, Meghan McCain, Charlie Smith, and, wait for it... Chuck Norris.

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Voting on 10Questions closed yesterday with a huge surge in participation...and a number of last-minute submissions, including one that appears to have climbed into the top ten. And that raises an important question, was the process fair?