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If one blog post can point to a core demographics "way of thinking", then one could say that the outburst of discussion in the mommy blogosphere created by mommyblogger, The Queen of Spain, may indicate that Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio will see a huge voting shift away from the former First Lady and current Senator of New York.

Why? The post I am going to quote after the jump may well be a quantifiable reflection of how white suburban mothers, Hillary Clinton's core constituency, are starting to move away from her to embrace Barack Obama.

• How the Pickens Plan is making use of social media
• Don't be a Nero: While Rome Burns
• Tim Kaine wants your economic hardship stories, and you can go ahead and use the phone -- 1-888-64-CHANGE. (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
• WhiteHouse.gov's royal "we" liveblogs Obama's Fort Myers event
• Ars' Julian Sanchez on the possible dark side of transparency
• Let the White House know how you feel about the digital television delay
• Wikileaks -- "an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis" -- is housing 6,780 "secret" Congressional Research Service reports
• Finally, Jared Polis (D-CO) and Jason Fried (37signals) -- separated at birth?
• [UPDATE] One more: Obama calls on HuffPo's Sam Stein, and he did it on purpose! Stein used the opportunity to ask about steroids investigating the Bush Administration.

(Photo: warrenski)

• MoveOn's Eli Pariser moves on. Meet the new boss.
• Whitehouse.gov's email box is limited to 500 characters. But, hey, the Gettysburg address was just 265. [UPDATE] A careful reader points out that the Gettysburg address was 265 words, not characters. How many are in "man, that was a dumb mistake"?
• Could Obama's BlackBerry make him as scatter-brained as the rest of us?
• A peek at Obama's Internet strategery.
• What the tech world did to the stimulus.

• Obama not so much a Mac guy? Mark the Oval Office "Intel Inside." (via Ben Smith) (Photo: Stijn Vogels)
• Right-leaning Chilean presidential candidate Sebastián Piñera held a Q&A on Twitter. My Spanish is a bit rusty, but I know what "tecnologías modernas" means.
• Colin Delany's reading list: everything you've ever wanted to know about the Obama Internet campaign.
• Here's what a clever new-media consultant's business card looks like. (Bad link fixed.)
• Virginians asked what to do with the state's stimulus cash and New Yorkers asked for ideas on closing the budget gap. What's your state (or district) asking you to do?
• Gibbs makes a funny. Asked how Caterpillar's CEO delivered his views on the stimulus to Obama, Gibbs answered "text." He was kidding. We think.
• [UPDATE] One more: MoveOn's map of economic crisis stories.

• Organizing for America has stories to tell. In other news, a Category 5 Obama logo appears poised to strike Miami.
• Angry over FOIA lawsuits and cookies, EFF writes the White House.
• McCain emails to announce his re-election bid. Twice. I got one on Feb. 10 and another last night. (Comment from an unnamed tPer: "Is he now doubly aware of the Internet?")
• Rebooting Pacer. Don't miss the photo of young techie Aaron Swartz basking in warm laptop glow. Or this, from Carl Malamud, on his political future: "If called, I will certainly serve...But if not called, I will probably serve anyway.”
• "Voting Blind": House Republican John Culberson's timeline of the stimulus bill's, ahem, negotiations. (Via John Wonderlich)
• Show Us the Data: The Most Wanted Federal Government Documents
• Number of UStream viewers of the RNC's Tech Summit right this very second: 387.
• John Kerry's now Commerce subcommittee chair on communications and technology. And he wants broadband for everyone.
• Twestivals happened last night.
  
• Will the CTO (if we ever get one) be an "Assistant to the President"?
• Dear President Obama, Please Consider Open Source
• [UPDATE] One more: California's Lieutenant Governor gets cold feet after her (or someone in his office) joined a pro-probe Facebook group.
• GOP Problem Solver. Do not neglect to click the "But That Doesn't Make Sense" button.

(With Micah Sifry)

• New from White House dot gov: The stimulus (and the Super Bowl), a photo essay.
• Twenty Theses for Government 2.0, Cluetrain Style: "You can either jump on the Government 2.0 cluetrain or get hit by it."
• Saturday Night Live goes deep inside Republican minds as they figure out how to keep their hot streak going.
• Noah Feldman says a little government secrecy can be a good thing. (But his arguments must still be classified, because they're not in this piece.)
• Tuft's Patrick Meier has "The Impact of the Information Revolution on Authoritarian Rule and Social Resistance: From Information Revolution to iRevolution?" (via SmartMobs)
• Micah's on the Big Think!
• CEOs on what they want to see from the still-unnamed federal CTO. (via Ellen Miller)
• Rove's getting abused via TwitPic.
• John Culberson slams Nancy Pelosi on Twitter for heading to Europe. Of course, she's not around it hear it.
• The U.K.'s on the lookout for a Director of Digital Engagement. (via Jeff Jarvis) How's this for selling the job? "...significant risk of reputational damage if this does not happen or Government gets it wrong."
• And while we're on that side of the pond, check out Tweetminster.

(With Micah Sifry and Josh Sherman)

• "How New Media Helped Make Me the First Openly-Gay Official in South Carolina"

• Why you're seeing black boxes where your online friends' smiling faces used to be: New Zealand's experiencing an Internet blackout.
• Ironies of ironies: Florida's sunshine laws falling victim to new tech and Wikileaks publishes internal document having to do with...one guess...Wikileaks. (via Ellen Miller and David Robinson respectively)
• Hackers attack the federal government's version of Travelocity. (via Carl Malamud)
• And introducing the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge.
• [UPDATE] And another: netrooters rally behind their picks for the MSNBC 7 p.m. hour.

• The White House's covert bloggers take a second stab at live-blogging with Obama's trip to Ottawa, rounded out with some Pete Souza photos like the one above. "9:20 a.m.: Canal Rideau is frozen over, and there are people ice skating on it." Brrrrr.
• There's now an Obama-esque Gotham font appropriate for every typographic occasion.
• ProPublica is version-tracking WhiteHouse.gov, Recovery.gov and more. (Though do very dynamic sites muck up the comparisons?) They're tweeting, so let 'em know what you spot.
• House Oversight ranking member Darrell Issa makes use of his (Democratic) predecessor Henry Waxman's record to push on email archiving: "Indeed the heading 'White House Emails' has long been listed along with the Environment and Iraq Reconstruction as one of the key issues on the Committee's internet home page."
• If you're looking for the Administration's thinking on information technology, don't go looking at the Office of Science & Technology policy.
• [ADDED] The White House plans to live stream today's mayors' meeting (though we're not seeing much yet).

• That's the look we imagine on Howard Dean's face when he finds out there's a Fake Howard Dean. (Photo: Dave Stroup)
• Clay Shirky: "Are we really going to let a Digg-style voting algorithm commit the federal government top issue to the 'wrestling with medicinal use of marijuana'?" (via Tracy Viselli)
• The Guantánamo Docket is a neat database of detainees from the New York Times' interactive news division. (Here's a watch that can get you in trouble.)
• "Ask Not What Your Country Can Dev For You."
• But sometimes your country indeed devs for you. WhiteHouse.gov adds a signed legislation section after complaints that some bills were becoming law unnoticed.
• W. David Stephenson considers Recovery.gov as a first step.
• Finally, have you every kicked in some online change to a non-profit? Then take a few minutes to help this USC masters student out with her research.