No phone calls, Twitter messages or other electronic communication will be permitted from Supreme Court hearings on the Affordable Care Act, which begin today. The court will be releasing audio recordings of the proceedings the same day they happen. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign made an aggressive effort Friday take ownership of the term "Obamacare." It sent out two e-mails to supporters asking them to express their support for "Obamacare" on social networks, in e-mails with the subject line "Hell yeah, I like Obamacare," and, the next day, "So, a lot of you like Obamacare." @BarackObama tweeted "If you're proud of Obamacare and tired of the other side using it as a dirty word, complete this sentence: #ILikeObamacare because ..." and retweeted many supporters who took up that request. An Obamacare Facebook page has over 24,500 likes. On CBS Sunday morning, Obama adviser David Plouffe said that Republicans are going to regret branding the law "Obamacare." The campaign also posted a video with the title "Republicans are desperate to kill health care reform - stop them. "

Ad Age has profiled Daniel Maree, the 24-year old digital strategist at Interpublic Group of Cos.' McCann, who was a key figure behind the social media campaign One Million Hoodies — an online push calling for justice in response to the shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin that preceded street protests in New York City last week. Yesterday, another social networking effort was encouraging churchgoers to wear hoodies.

The Federal Trade Commission has launched a new Twitter feed and blog devoted to technology issues.

Salon profiles Matt Ortega, the creator of EtchASketchMittRomney.com and other Romney-critical memes.

Ortega works for the Democratic consulting group New Partners, which is stacked with former DNC staffers, and Ortega himself worked for the national committee during the 2008 campaign. But the 27-year-old insists the microsites are not part of his professional work, but a hobby that he does entirely on his own...While some people go to bars or watch TV after leaving the office, "I come home from work … and I build websites," the self-taught "digital nerd" said....It can take as little as 45 minutes from gaffe to Twitter gold, or a lot longer depending on the complexity. "I don't know of anybody on either side [Democratic or Republican] that does anything consistently like this," he boasted, though he did mention a few people who have made one-offs.

The Obama campaign is using an image of the President fist-bumping a White House janitor, that had been going viral on Facebook, in an online ad with the message "Get Barack's Back. Join The Campaign."

The Rick Santorum campaign has revealed the first of what it says will be multiple videos showcasing its vision of "Obamaville." In the video, that opens with pictures of an abandoned city and playground, "it is hardly morning in America. It is more like apocalypse in America," as the New York Times put it. "It's just a little teaser to get people to start watching our episodes and do it in a way that piques their interest," [Santorum strategist John] Brabender said. "It's all about driving traffic to the Web site." The video has also raised some eyebrows because it has some alternating shots of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and President Obama.

Two Democratic lawmakers have begun an inquiry into the data collection practices of social apps on Apple devices, sending letter to companies include Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Foursquare.

Various politicians were "Klout-bombed" last week when, for example, users chose "homophobia" as a topic of influence for several Republican candidates, "Diaper," "Racism", "Sweater" and "Google" for Rick Santorum specifically, as well as "cheating" and "fascism" for Barack Obama.

The outgoing CEO of C-SPAN talked to Nieman Lab about how the network was an early adopter of technology and the creation of its online video archive.

The company that is taking care of the data from Megaupload has filed a court motion to find out what it can do with the data. It has suggested getting help paying for the maintenance of the data or at least briefly restoring access to users. The MPAA is requesting that the data be maintained for lawsuits. Some former users of the site have been targeted by fraudulent letters from a German law firm claiming they are liable for fines.

At the National Press Foundation, Google executive Eric Schmidt talked about how the Internet is facing obstacles in the area of cybercrime, privacy and censorship.

The Justice Department is suing AT&T, alleging that it let an Internet-based phone system it offers to the hearing-impaired be overrun by criminals and then improperly billed the government to reimburse the calls in violation of the False Claims Act. "As the F.C.C. is aware, it is always possible for an individual to misuse I.P. Relay services, just as someone can misuse the postal system or an e-mail account, but F.C.C. rules require that we complete all calls by customers who identify themselves as disabled," a spokesperson for AT&T said.

In the wake of the jury verdict in case of a Rutgers student accused of invading the privacy of his roommate with a webcam, some universities are questioning how to handle issues of online privacy that affect students At Boston College, a football player has been charged with secretly making an audio recording of two students having sex.

New York City's official mayoral photographer praised the greater visibility of his photos online, saying, "To have these avenues for exposure that never existed before, such as NYC.gov and Flickr, is heaven."

British publishers object to a draft proposal under which the final version of papers produced with funding from any of the science research councils must be made freely available online within six months.

A Chinese telecommunications equipment company has sold a surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications to Iran's largest telecom firm.

Public school students in one Brazilian city are wearing uniforms with locator chips that can inform parents when they are skipping class.

The organizers of an online mock poll ahead of the Hong Kong elections said they were the victim of a cyberattack.

The African Union said it will send 5,000 soldiers as part of a renewed effort to track down the rebel leader Joseph Kony. This comes in the wake of a popular but controversial social media effort to build support for continued American intervention in the hunt for Kony.

Anonymous crashed two websites about the visit of Pope Benedict XVI's to Mexico this weekend. A video posted on social networking sites said that the pope's visit would cost Mexicans money that could be better spent on the poor, and is meant to support the governing party in the July 1 presidential election.

In Mexico, a Twitter feed is naming the dead who are victims of violence.

The European Union has expanded sanctions on Syria, particularly on the wife and family of President Bashar al-Assad, in part due to indications in leaked e-mails to the Guardian that suggest she had been spending money on items from Europe.

The travel ban followed reports in the Guardian newspaper in Britain about leaked e-mails that depicted Mrs. Assad, 36, as a spendthrift shopper who referred to her husband as "my duck." Although the authenticity of the e-mails was never confirmed, they generated enormous interest among Syrians hostile to the Assads. Some Syrian activists reached by Skype on Friday said protesters were carrying duck pictures and calling for "the trial of the duck."