In the aftermath of "Innocence"

• The Wall Street Journal reported on the events that led up to the violence in Egypt and Libya and noted that American diplomats in Egypt were tracking response on social media to clips said to belong to "Innocence of Muslims," an incendiary film critical of Islam.

  "The embassy in Cairo knew the film was beginning to get attention because it was monitoring social media, according to State Department officials. 'That was well ahead of any intelligence that they got from Washington,' one official said." About an hour before the assault in Libya, Ambassador Stevens told an official in a phone call that there was no sign of trouble, according to the WSJ.

• The United States is running TV ads in Pakistan that show President Obama Secretary of State Clinton denouncing the anti-Islam video, and supposedly average Americans expressing their distaste of the video. The videos are posted on the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan's Facebook page.

• Egypt has ordered the arrest of the U.S. based Coptic Christians alleged to be behind the film.

• A judge ruled against an actress in the video who is demanding that YouTube take the film down.

Home team reads

• OpenStreetMap is getting new funding that might help it compete for market share in the mapping data world.

• A new report on effective advocacy suggests that activists and volunteers know how to get the most out of their time — they just choose the easiest and least effective actions, like mass emails to members of Congress, which aren't as effective as in-person visits or truly individual emails.

Around the web

• The Obama campaign decided to answer Mitt Romney's statement about Barack Obama's comments not being out of context by doubling down and cutting together a number of Romney statements out of context.

• A new Tumblr called RomCom2012 inserts Romney into the movie posters of popular romantic comedies. Another Tumblr transposes Romney quotes on images of Arrested Development character Lucille Bluth.

• Ad Age reported that the digital advertising companies focused on political data are also becoming attractive to other brands.

• Harold Koh, legal adviser to the State Department, recently gave a talk on international law in cyberspace.

• A study by computer scientists of the Egyptian uprising and other events found that the social media history associated with those events is vanishing.

• More than 500 websites plan to embed a Voter Information Project tool to help voters research candidates and polling places on Election Day. Google and Bing also plan integrate VIP information in their search results.

• Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is proposing legislation to reform the way federal technology is purchased, such as by granting agency chief information officers authority over their information technology budgets, Nextgov reported.

• House Republicans are backing legislation that would increase the number of permanent resident visas for foreigners graduating with advanced degrees in science and technology, the New York Times reported.

• Ars Technica suggests that a change to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act could create barriers to innovation and access to information.

• Wikipedia announced it would be making search data available for researchers, but then took it down to "to make additional improvements to the anonymization protocol related to the search queries," Search Engine Land reported.

• In a contribution to Time focusing on his case for optimism, Bill Clinton writes: "Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.'The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good. A 2010 U.N. study, for example, found that cell phones are one of the most effective advancements in history to lift people out of poverty." Clinton goes on to cite examples of cell phone leading to financial empowerment in Haiti.

• Twitter recently hired a Republican congressional staffer, where he will focus on Washington issues, while a recently hired Democratic staffer is heading the global public policy team.

• Freedomworks is raising money with a moneybomb under the headline "fire Obama."

• Facebook confirms it has been surveying some users about whether their friends are using their real names.

• A start-up believes that government agencies and news organizations will be the core market for its application that can detect photo manipulations.

• Warner Brothers, Hotfile and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are fighting in court over whether automated takedown requests represent a threat to free speech or an appropriate way to deal with piracy.

• Public Knowledge suggests that Fox wants to change established copyright law to make home recording illegal.

• Tumblr traffic has almost doubled in the past year, according to Comscore.

• The message of the most popular Tumblr post of all time has been constantly reedited as it gets passed along, including alternately reading “Mitt Romney sucks pass it on" and "barack obama sucks pass it on."

• The city of Chicago has upgraded its 311 web and mobile applications to allow resident to track their service requests.

• The Washington D.C. Taxi Commission is proposing new regulations that seem to be negatively targeting the taxi-hailing application Uber.

• WNYC has mapped current and planned WiFi-enabled subway stations in New York City.

• The official North Korean website posted a Gangnam-style video on its website, altered to mock conservative South Korean presidential candidate Park Geun-hye by adding his picture over rapper PSY's face and editing the video so he's defending Park’s late father, Park Chung-hee, South Korea's autocratic onetime ruler.

• Ireland's minister for justice says Apple's iOS 6 maps are “dangerously misleading" after an estate in his district called Airfield with a farm, formal gardens and café was designated as an airport with a plane symbol.

• The Washington Post reported on how the Indignados movement in Spain, which predates the Occupy movement, has made use of alternative social networks like a chat application called Mumble and the Bambuser video streaming service as it continues to evolve.

• Google has sponsored a new website in cooperation with a Kiev-based charity to detail the Ukraine's contribution to the history of computing.

• Researchers have found that Iran has laid the technical groundwork for national online network that would independent of the Internet.

• CNN reported on how the proliferation of smartphones among migrants in China is helping them become socially and politically engaged.

• The University of Stirling in Scotland has launched a Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy.