A quick clarification. A few days back, I wrote about an email survey from Organizing for America that asked supporters, among other things, how they've been connecting to OFA online. That wasn't, as I had said, a survey of the full base of OFA contacts on the future of the organization. Instead, says an OFA contact, the organization emails 1/53rd of its full list each week to continually get a pulse of what they're thinking. This just happened to be my week. I regret the error.

Over on Twitter, @mliddell hints at the idea that our post yesterday on Edward Tufte's (author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information) joining the Recovery Board as an advisor should have instead been named the above. He is correct.

For the hundreds, nay, dare I say thousands of you planning to come out tomorrow to the Atlantic's "State of the Union for Technology" event featuring, among others, yours truly, we just got word that it's be cancelled, in light of the fact that DC is frozen solid. The good folks at the Atlantic are working on rescheduling the event, and you'll certainly be notified as to when.

This is more or less a day away from the blog for us at techPresident. As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, it's worth noting that the Internet provides an absolute wealth of multimedia material that helps to flesh out the day from a simple historic holiday to its rightful place as an opportunity to reflect on America's amazing and complicated journey. To get started, check out the YouTube footage of some of King's famous and lesser known speeches. Here's the text of the "I Have a Dream" speech. And then you might take a moment to read the remarkable letter King wrote to his fellow clergymen while he was locked in a Birmingham jail, the one in which he answered those who thought he was pushing for too much, too soon.

Of course, today isn't only about what's been done. It's about what we all can do to make our vision of the world real, whatever that vision might be. Martin Luther King's name might be the one used to mark the holiday, but any honest understanding of the day acknowledges that his strength came from being part of a collection of sometimes like-minded and often differing souls. It's probably fair to say that Martin Luther King Day is, as much as anything else, about collective action, about the perfecting of human experience that can come about when good-intentioned people engage, debate, and do the hard, hard work that's required to create a just society, and a just world.

Of special interest here is that Serve.gov is hosting the MLK Day Technology Challenge, aimed at connecting technologists -- "web professionals, developers, graphic designers and new media professionals" -- with schools and non-profits that could use their services. (Many of the projects they're pointing to last longer than just today.) There are, of course, countless other ways to serve today and every day of the year.

Just a note to say that posting -- from me, at least -- will be light as I pop down to DC for today's White House forum on modernizing government. Blogging from the Bolt Bus, my preferred method of NY-to-DC travel, always seems to work much better in theory than in practice. In the meantime, be sure to give a read to Ari Melber's techPresident special report on year one of Organizing for America. The first anniversary of OFA's creation is (I think) this Sunday, and what better way to prep yourself for it?

You might have noticed that when you attempted to get to techpresident.com this morning, you didn't exactly get what you were expecting. We've fixed the problem, although we're not exactly sure what triggered it. Our original theory, that our tiny office kitten chewed through some wires, didn't pan out. Mostly because we don't actually have a tiny office kitten. Seriously though, thanks for your patience. And thanks, as always, for reading.

On with the show. (Photo credit: Caruba)

Huffington Post technology editor Jose Antonio Vargas has compiled a list of this last decade's ten biggest moments at the intersection of technology and politics, a field that really came of age in the aughts. Some of the picks, like the innovations of the Obama campaign, are to be expected. Others are a bit more surprising, but we'll let you decide into which bucket techPresident's inclusion falls. Seriously, we're honored. Have a look at the full slideshow of the 2000's top moments in tech politics here.

Folks, with that, things here in the world of Personal Democracy Forum and techPresident will be quiet for a while as as we enjoy some holiday downtime through the new year. We reserve the right to blog if things come up or the spirit moves us, but your inbox will be devoid of our Daily Digest until Monday, January 4th. From all of us to all of you and yours, we wish you a safe, happy, and inspiring holiday season.

Blogging will be light (if not nonexistent) today as much of the PdF crew is on its way to Barcelona for the first ever Personal Democracy Forum Europe conference, to be held in Torre Agbar -- a.k.a. the rounded tower rising above the city on the right side of the photo above. (We'll also be taking a break from the Daily Digest through the Thanksgiving holiday, so check the blog for new content.) We'll have updates and coverage here as the conference progresses, and please do follow along with all the action through the Twitter hashtag #pdfeu. Hasta más tarde! (Photo credit: Gerard Girbes)

I'm headed to Mexico City tomorrow on a trip led by the State Department, getting back late Friday. What that means for our relationship is that blogging will be light, but I look forward to having great stuff for you when I return.