Osama bin Laden's now-razed Abbottabad, Pakistan compound, 2011. Photo: Sajjad ali Qureshi

The archive

• The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point plans to release documents from the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, this morning and post them online.

Things partisans do

• ICYMI:

  Breitbart.com lists what it claims are the "Top Ten Dirty Tricks Leftists Play Online." Among them are tactics you might expect to go into a no-no pile, like "Google Bombing" and "doxing," which is acquiring personal information about someone and posting it all online. But "parody accounts" are also listed as a "dirty trick" — in which case the pot is calling the kettle black.

• Mitt Romney held an off-the-record outreach meeting with conservative bloggers yesterday, the Huffington Post reported.

• The New York Times reported that the Romney campaign had not vetted "cutting Twitter postings" of its just-ousted foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell. Grenell, who is gay and supports same-sex marriage, left the campaign yesterday not amid outcry at his acerbic online presence so much as the idea that the Romney campaign had hired someone who embodies the opposite of the campaign's position on gay marriage. The Times uses other exhortations on Twitter to tell the story, reaching back for examples of opinion at the time the same way YouTube videos have become a means of holding candidates to their words. For example, the Times cites Bryan Fischer, a Romney critic with the American Family Association, telling nearly 1,400 followers on Twitter about Grenell: “If personnel is policy, his message to the pro-family community: drop dead.” Grenell resigned after campaign officials asked him to lower his profile and not to participate on a call with reporters.

• As Newt Gingrich officially suspended his campaign, the Obama campaign released a video highlighting his attacks on Romney.

• The Democratic Party announced on Facebook that Democrats.org has been redesigned.

Around the web

• The White House highlighted several job search apps which have been created as part of an initiative to help low-income and disconnected young people find work this summer. The Administration also says it is launching a new online search database for summer jobs.

• Mozilla has come out against CISPA in a statement. Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) defended his vote for the legislation.

• A Senate committee will examine the Obama administration's Privacy Bill of Rights proposal at a hearing next week.

• C-SPAN has video from a conference this week on transatlantic cybersecurity that saw participation from experts and government officials from Europe and the U.S., including Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich, Department of State Senior Cyber Policy Advisor Thomas Dukes, Homeland Security Department Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute, and others.

• Michael Calderone from the Huffington Post reported that there is some disagreement between the Romney Campaign and journalists over whether Buzzfeed will be in the official press pool covering the candidate.

• The New York Times Fixes Column looked into how the CompStat system pioneered by the NYPD has spread to other cities and local government areas.

• A Bloomberg News reporter describes how journalists going on President Obama's secret Afghanistan trip were initially not allowed to discuss it via cell phone or any online communication.

• A.P. Social Media Editor Eric Carvin recently shared the news organization's approach to gathering and publishing information on social networks.

• The Boston Globe is eliminating the terms "yesterday," "today," and "tomorrow" as part of its commitment to online news.

• Organ donation registries in several states said they saw an increase in volunteer donors following the announcement that Facebook would allow users to indicate their organ donor status. California saw a 700 percent increase in the number of volunteers, according to a non-profit group working with Facebook.

• Harvard and MIT have announced a non-profit partnership called edX to offer free online courses.Five academic officials from traditional higher education institutions are advising another free, peer-to-peer online education venture, the University of the People.

• An ad for potato chips featuring Ashton Kutcher in brownface has been pulled from the company's YouTube page and Facebook page following online criticism.

• According to a report by the network solutions company Akamai, the average U.S. web connection speed is 5.8Mbps, compared, for example, to South Korea's 16Mbps. Old news: efforts to catch up are under way, but it's entirely unclear if the players on that team can collaborate to make it happen.

• Budget cuts could threaten the amount and quality of data available from Statistics Canada, a government statistics office that had announced earlier this year it would eliminate access fees to its databases.

• Conservative Member of British Parliament Louise Mensch has come out forcefully against online comments directed against her on Twitter that she says are sexist and "misogynistic."

• The Pirate Bay said it has received more traffic as a result of a British court ruling that Internet service providers should block the site.

• Israel's Chief Military Censor says that the military has launched a new system to monitor information on the Internet, Haaretz reported, including visual and textual information on social networks. blogs and news sites.

• During yesterday's French Presidential Debate, Nicolas Sarkozy's Twitter account tweeted that 80 local or interest federations associated with his party, the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, would be live-tweeting during the debate, in effect directly suggesting that they would be acting as surrogates to spread his message online. Both candidates' accounts were live-tweeting commentary during the debate, the New York Times noted.

• France’s Hadopi public agency, created to implement a warning system about illegal downloading, is conducting a review of France's copyright law, a move welcomed by European Commission digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes.

• The Atlantic Wire profiles Zeng Jinyan, the woman who as acted as a Twitter spokesperson for blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who is now reportedly seeking to leave China. The New York Times looked at the video messages he has managed to have published as part of his escape from house arrest.

• The German Education and Research Minister says she wants to clear up allegations on an anonymous wiki-blog which claim that she plagiarized parts of her 32-year old doctoral thesis. "The dissertation was written 32 years ago, and I will be happy to give my account to those who are looking into the work; but it is difficult to deal with anonymous allegations," she said at a press conference, according to reports. Since a German Defense Minister resigned over such allegations last year, several online sites and wikis have been dedicated to uncovering such plagiarism among the doctoral theses of other German officials.

• Eskinder Nega, an imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger, received Pen America's annual "Freedom to Write" prize for articles he had published critical of Ethiopia's human rights record.

• Defense lawyers said a judge in Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes trial should be disqualified because an e-mail indicated she had improper communications with a prosecutor.

• A Nigerian Islamist group is threatening more attacks against newspapers in a YouTube video.