Clearing the Cache: Keeping .Gov Weird
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, June 26 2009
- You owe it to yourself to click play, really you do.
- Thirty dollars or more to Organizing for America gets you a limited-edition "Health Care '09" t-shirt: "When it comes to the fight to reform health care, millions of grassroots supporters are ready to stand up and be counted. This limited edition 'Health Care '09' T-shirt is a great way to show your support — and make sure we have the resources we need to win real reform." Limited edition is right. Health care reform this year or bust, baby.
- You can wear your shirt to this weekend's Organizing for America National Health Care Day of Service.
- OFA also wants you to call Congress over today's energy bill.
- Sunlight Labs calls its Recovery.gov bid "failure" a teaching moment.
- Speaking of Recovery.gov, ReadWriteWeb explores the site's failings.
- Obama floats the idea of an online citizenship checker.
- Five tenets driving the New York State Senate's open government push, and a look at how the CIO's office is moving ahead despite chaos in Albany.
- Iraq Deputy Prime Minister and ardent tweeter Barham Salih launches his own website.
- Genachowski finally headed to the FCC, confirmed yesterday.
- John Geraci wants help renaming the open government-ish movement in a way that captures what's happening beyond actual government.
- This is turning into a really long Clearing the Cache, isn't it?
- The New York Times' Peter Baker assesses the HuffPo/Pitney question brouhaha.
- NextGov creates an all-fed Twitter feed.
- Did the Daily Show break transparency?
- Using Facebook Actions to do a Sotomayor push.
- Stay with me, we're almost done...
- Applying the cute cat theory to Iran.
- Farhad Manjoo considers the glass-half-empty take to how technology has shaped events in Iran.
- One potential tick in the not so great column: reports that the Iranian government is trying to crowdsource the identification of protesters.
- Speaking of crowdsourced IDing, NPR's Dollar Short is asking for helping figuring out who's who amongst the lobbyists assembled at a recent Senate health care hearing. (Thanks Bryan Campen)
- Hey, it worked for Iran, didn't it? The New York Times tries live-blogging Michael Jackson's death.
- A passing which seems to have broken the Internet.
- And the Iran-meets-Michael mash-ups were, in retrospect, inevitable: "It doesn't matter who's wrong or right, just beat iiiiiiitttt..."