There might be one silver lining in Apple's shut-out of Google Voice from its iTunes store.
(A development we'll have more on in a bit.) On Friday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) and other net neutrality advocates reintroduced legislation to prohibit network discrimination. This is Markey's third pass at a net neutrality bill. This time, though, he has in hand -- and on the front pages -- a clear example of what happens when them that runs the networks decides what runs on those networks. Our wireless space doesn't operate under principles of neutrality. So if providers (AT&T) and phone manufactures (Apple) decide they don't like something (Google Voice), that's in many ways the beginning and the end of it.

H.R. 3458 seeks to spare the Internet from the wireless world's fate...

The New York Times editorial board is urging President-elect Obama to embrace the idea that restoring the U.S.'s rightful place at the vanguard of the Internet could be a centerpiece of his presidential legacy...Anyone kicking in coin to the Presidential Inauguration Committee is finding themselves included in a searchable and sortable online database...As the Nation's Ari Melber reports, the transition team has posted responses to the top five queries that came out of its "Open for Questions" feature, but to what end?...and a good deal more.

They'd Check the "It's Complicated" Box; The Oppositional Approach to Getting from Here to Five Million; Transition's Tech Team Taps Beltway and Beyond; Government Guide to Marijuana (Vendors); Nanobama, the Microscopic President; DC's Apps Contest Names Winners; Progressives' Annual Participatory Debrief; and more.

Slate's Farhad Manjoo explores Barack Obama's transition from a hyper-networked candidate to a 21st century president from whom, now, much is expected; The Nation's Ari Melber keenly notes that a recent Washington Post story slipped in the unattributed bombshell that the Obama campaign's email list topped out at some 10 million members; The organization known as the Obama-Biden Transition Project (I just love that name -- so very '70s experimental band, no?) has brought on someone perhaps best known in these parts as a blogger, Open Left's Mike Lux; and a good deal more.

After taking a quick initial look at Change.gov, the Obama transition team's new site, we concluded that while it echoes the campaign's talk of open government, the site doesn't have much meat on its bones yet. The Next Right's Jonathan Klingler suggests that the fact that the site has "plenty of feedback forms but not much more" points to the "contradiction of the postmodern left netroots." Let's take a deep breath here; But members of Team Obama aren't the only ones who have been busy. Familiar online conservatives Patrick Ruffini, Erick Erickson, Mindy Finn, Michael Turk; Justin Sayfie, former spokesman for Gov. Jeb Bush; and others have launched RebuildTheParty.com; Some in the online left aren't pleased with the decisions President-elect Obama has made or is rumored to possibly be making; and a good deal more.

The Next Right's Patrick Ruffini warns the GOP that if it concludes that President-elect Barack Obama earned the title merely by pushing the right levers on the Internet, "they will draw the wrong lessons from this year;" Where does Chris Hughes fit into an Obama administration?, tweets NYU's Jay Rosen. The Facebook founder was Obama's director of social-networking -- a job that's wholly without precedent in the West Wing; Google Hot Trends offers a peek into what people were scouring the Internet for just after the race was called last night at 11pm ET; and a good deal more.

Starring in one of David Spark's "Sixteen Great Twitter Moments" now up on Mashable is the National Political Do Not Contact Registry's Shaun Dakin and California Green Party congressional candidate Zane Starkewolf. The latter may have the great name, but he's behind an odd and thoroughly uncomfortable robocall; If you're (a) a liberal and (b) haven't settled on a plan for tomorrow evening, than we've got the website for you; A diarist on Daily Kos by the name of "the dogs sockpuppet" is boasting of Obama's new voter management system by the name of "Houdini;" and a good deal more.

If our referral logs and those of our friends are any indication, where to go to cast a ballot is at the top of many peoples' minds these days. A neat new mobile tool from CREDO Mobile, the New Organizing Institute, and Mobile Commons makes it trivial for voters to find their polling place, wherever they might happen to be; MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe is offering some considered musings on whether Barack Obama's social-networking efforts will actually turn millennials out to vote. It's an open question, and will be for a few more days; A life-long Southern California Republican is backing Barack Obama, and he's rounded up some professional filmmakers to make the case for his candidate; and a good deal more.

We noted a while back the curious case of an anti-Sarah Palin email sent by two New York women to 40-odd friends that attracted a reported 150,000 responses. That humble missive has evolved into a multimedia campaign.; In these final days, the presidential campaigns are scrambling to reach out to undecideds or soft supporters and convert them into votes; Now that Obama has won -- the WebMarketing Association's Web Award for the better of the two candidates' websites, of course -- thoughts are turning to how a President Obama would use his much-vaunted Internet savvy to actually govern; and a good deal more.

Friday, the Obama campaign released a new ad mocking John McCain for being so "out of touch" with current realities that "he admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail." It seems as though a meme that started gaining traction back in June at the Personal Democracy Forum plenary, where Edwards blogger Tracy Russo lambasted McCain deputy internet director Mark Soohoo for defending McCain's admitted internet illiteracy, has now been embraced by Obama directly as a way to raise doubts about his rival's fitness for the White House.

Unfortunately, the language of the ad oversimplifies the issue (though it's hardly as big a distortion of the truth as McCain's recent attack ads). In fairness, McCain has not only admitted that he is tech-illiterate; in July he told the New York Times that "I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don't expect to be a great communicator, I don't expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need." Better late than never, right?