Facebook has given us an unprecedented look inside the demographic breakdowns of its user base. For the first time, there's a model for quantifying who the early adopters on the Web are, and how they vote.

Read this post for the full data.

There just aren't that many of them.

But there are plenty more interested in the Bible, Country music, Sportscenter, watching 24, and playing Halo 3 on their Xbox.

Meanwhile, liberals watch the Daily Show, love Radiohead (by a 6-to-1 margin over conservatives), and (speaking as a Republican) let's just say I like who Stephen Colbert takes votes from.

This is all part of my deep dive into Facebook demographic data provided at by the Flyers Pro advertising engine. I've just updated the spreadsheet. The data looks like this...

DemocracyInAction and Catalist have just made a remarkable new deal.

Let me back up. DIA is one of the core components of the progressive political infrastructure, providing online advocacy tools to a wide range of left-leaning non-profits. And Catalist is the political data giant that grew out of the Clinton camp's upset over how the DNC was keeping up with the GOP on the tech and data front. More on that here. The deal? DIA's clients get free access to Catalist's world-class data. In exchange, they must turn over to Catalist the details on their own donors.

This is the 2008 Dopplr report for Barack Obama. The travel tracking site is sending out custom reports to all users, but is rather cleverly promoting one for the President-elect. It's probably a safe bet that few folks got around like Obama last year, what with his countless jaunts to Iowa and Hawaii and Iowa and Kenya and Iowa and Kabul and, well, Iowa. Obama's 248 separate trips and 234 days on the road, the report notes, left a carbon footprint equivalent to that of 4.2 Hummers. (And, no, Obama's not actually a Dopplr user. The company compiled trip records from press reports.)

• Not to be cowed by Organizing for America's 13-million-member or so mailing list, John McCain stepped into the fray yesterday with an email to his list on the stimulus package before Congress...
• We may never know what role, if any, the Tom Daschle YouTube video that burned up the Intertubes yesterday had in his withdrawal as HHS nominee. But woowee, it couldn't have helped...
• With Daschle out of the running, there's a been a renewed push in what is perhaps best called the progressive blogosphere to install former DNC chair Howard Dean at the helm of Health and Human Services...
• Recovery.gov, the much-anticipated oversight site tracking the payouts from the $900 billion stimulus package currently before Congress, has been dropped from the Senate version of the bill, Is it time to start worrying?...
• And even more.

Meet OOGL. On his very first full day in the new job, you might remember, President Obama gave word that the as-yet-unnamed person who will eventually fill the as-yet-pretty-much-undefined federal Chief Technology Officer job will come into office with an assignment waiting. He or she will have 120 days (which runs out on March 21) to write an Open Government Directive that lays out how Uncle Sam will be game-changingly "transparent," "participatory," and "collaborative." Big job, the clock's ticking, and it seems only fitting to attempt to make the process of writing the open-government directive itself, you know, transparent and participatory and collaborative.

That's where the Sunlight Foundation comes in.* They've created OOGL -- Our Open Government List -- that lets folks submit and vote up or down ideas to go into the directive.

*Note: Our Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry are senior advisors to the Sunlight Foundation.

This is going to break some good geeky hearts out there. Sight. Alas, there will not be an Innovation.gov. Word that a spankin' new website with the handsome domain name would serve as the rallying spot for federal open-government initiatives burned up the Twitter wires this weekend. But Beth Noveck tells me it's not true. And she should know, as the law professor is serving as the Administration's point person on crafting the Open Government Directive that President Obama promised on his first full day in office. That might be the bad news. But what will likely strike many of us as good news is that the OGD, as I like to call it, is being crafted via intra-government wiki...

Take a gander at what might grandly be called some synergy between open-minded government and forward-thinking journalism. The New York Times' Hannah Fairfield and Graham Roberts have put together an interactive graphic powered by Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Department data, mapping the disparity of what American men and women are paid for the same jobs. Jobs above the bold black line pay women better. Those jobs below put more cash in men's pockets. (The Times is careful to note that discrimination isn't the only possible cause for the wage gap.) Clicking on a job category isolates those jobs, and clicking on a job digs deeper into the data. Fairfield and Roberts also annotate the chart at various points to draw journalistic conclusions from the detailed data BLS and Census make available.

Development Seed's Ian Cairnes has good rundown over at the Center for American Progress' Science Progress about what good government data empowers citizens to create, using DC's Apps for Democracy contest as a case study. Well worth a read.

There's a related wrinkle when it comes to the promise and potential of mashing up government data on the city, state, and federal level. If Recovery.gov succeeds, it seems, it will be example number one for open government advocates as they make the case that good data can actually improve governance -- and boost Americans' faith in government. In that case, we have OMB and the eventual CTO setting standards on how data must (with the full backing of the federal government) be structured. There was no quicker way to kill a conversation at Transparency Camp last weekend than to wonder aloud how data standards for municipal data sharing should be established. If we learned anything from The Wire, it's that there's real power in defining how data is defined and collected. One suggestion heard at Transparency Camp: early adopters, like the DC city government, should lay down data patterns and then try to sell other cities on them.

The New York Times' Brian Knowlton's got a good recap of a conference call with new U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, and Kundra lets it be know that he'll be establishing a Data.gov site "that will put vast amounts of government information into the public domain." (Me think Knowlton's using "public domain" in the colloquial and not legal sense.) With the proliferation of new administration stand-alone sites -- Recovery.gov, Financial Stability.gov, AStrongMiddleClass.gov -- we're going to need Domains.gov to keep them all straight.

[UPDATE] See? Every time you turn around, pop!, a new domain. This afternoon's: HealthReform.gov.