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• The State Department's Flickr feed, while generally not rising to Souza-like levels of artistry, does offer a peek at the circus surrounding Hillary Clinton's diplomatic visit to Moscow.
• Here's Rep. Bob Latta, Republican of Ohio, in mobile app form. (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
• 150,000 people use the FCC's new app to find out more about their broadband speed.
• And the Census Bureau is answering both critics and questions on its Twitter feed.

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• Organizing for America launches a little visualizer front-end interface for their campaign to have supporters send in signs saying why they're backing health care reform.
• That Google DC event on online democracy that fell victim to the great snow-valanche of oh-ten has been rescheduled for the end of March.
• The State Department reportedly plans an internal social network.
• And FEMA launches a map that shows you in plain color the flood history of your county.

(With Micah Sifry)

• The EPA launches a cute drive to get folks to collaboratively produce a video that will, eventually, show people passing a sign reading "it's My Environment" across the screen, from left to right. If that makes no sense, just check out the video above.
• And Organizing for America is, in health care cram week, making use of simi liar trick. OFA allies are asked to download and fill out a sign reading "I'm Here for _______" that riffs off of the anecdote Obama has been repeating about Natoma Canfield, an Ohio woman recently diagnoses with cancer.
• It might be really weird to be Natoma Canfield right now. That is all.
• Democracy for America launched PrimariesMatter.com to orgnanize around potential Democratic primary challenges.
• Megan McArdle thinks that Progress Ohio's web video from a local tea party rally backfires.
• The David All Group expands with the addition of a former RNC deputy communications director.
• And somehow, I'm just learning of Google.com/UncleSam.

• As health care seemingly gets down to the wire, the White House pushes out a campaign-style health care video.
• RedState's editor-in-chief Erik Erikson joins the CNN team, with the network citing his credentials as both an "agenda-setter" and a "person who still lives in small-town America."
• Bill Clinton reportedly says that his favorite websites include Politico, HuffPo, and FireDogLake.
• Circumvention technologies aren't enough.
• The White House adds a "social stream" to its press conferences.
• The Heritage Foundation gets a new website, and explains why.
• The 37Signals folks release a funny attack ad on Karl Rove, their competitor on the book-sales list. Amongst the charges: dude uses Garamond -- a French font!

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• While conceding that America has not yet had its first "full up geek" President, Barack Obama is diagnosed as a geek sympathizer by the director of Hayden Planetarium, who knows from such things. This, it seems, is a debatable pronouncement. Sure, he dabbles in astronomy on occasion. But there haven't been signs that Obama possesses the Al Gore-like obsession with details that could be said to be the one immutable quality of a true geek.
• A correspondent points out that the FCC's release of the executive summary of its new National Broadband Plan is a scanned-in non-text PDF where you can see the three-ring binder holes.
• Another year, another batch of countries restricting Internet access.
• A look at how OFA is aging in Pennsylvania.
• And Neiman Lab's Megan Garber reports out the State Department's Opinion Space app.

(With Micah Sifry and Nick Judd)

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• Nope, that's not Wall-E in the front row of the White House theater, sitting between Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, as we first thought. Through the miracle that is the "original size" feature on Flickr, you can zoom in and see that it's actually some kind of a purse. Probably Spielberg's.
• As part of Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign, the White House is running an Apps for Healthy Kids competition that offers up $40,000 in prize money for "innovative, fun and engaging tools and games that encourage children directly or through their parents to make more nutritious food choices and be more physically active." The contest seems to bring together some of the Obamas favorite things: vegetables and open government; they want developers to make use of the USDA's nutrition data that it recently released through Data.gov.
• The federal highway folks have was seems to be a new zoomy-in map of federal highway projects.
• And Ben Smith's "Remainders" end-of-the-day link post (which, we freely admit, inspired our "Clearing the Cache" regular feature) figures into a plot line on the rather enjoyable new CBS drama The Good Wife. What a world!

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• U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra reports back in with some basic highlights from his swing to the West Coast last week. On a stop in Silicon Valley, Kundra sat down to brainstorm with "venture capitalists and technology innovators" from companies like Mint.com, Mozilla, and Facebook. What'd they come up with? If you have the vision of a bald eagle, you might be able to make out some details in the storyboard above.
• Here's a map showing the real-time location of the 13 vehicles that the Census Bureau has out and about in the U.S., letting people know about the upcoming head count. Each van is doing its own tweeting from the road.
• Also from the census folks: you can read the census form online, but you can't fill it out there. Yet.
• "For someone who claims to hate the 'Democrat[sic]-media complex,' Breitbart sure knows how to work it."
• TurboTax -- as in, the people who make that tax preparation software -- takes to Twitter to respond to those who had criticized them for supporting a certain political TV show. They tweet, "Thanks everyone for your feedback, & for reminding us of what we value. We’ve pulled advertising from the Glenn Beck show."
• And Mr. Beck is also the target of a new campaign from the likes of MoveOn, Brave New Films, and the SEIU that makes use of that your-name-here technology to make fun of the Beck-board.

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• For just under half an hour yesterday afternoon, there was no power in the Longworth House Office Building. In the United States of America.
• New to Twitter is Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson (@lisapjackson), who is looking to "expand the way we thinking about environmentalism." She might want to talk to Cory Booker about how you go about using Twitter to do some reputational enhancement.
• After some further noodling, Kevin Drum decides that "anonymous" blogger briefings inside the corridors of power can, indeed, be worthwhile.
• Parsing what John Yoo has to say about what became of his Justice Department emails.
• The AP analyzes White House tweet spin.
• And, completing our House of Representatives news sandwich, the House has launched a new caucus on global Internet freedom. There are only two members on board as of now, with Republican Chris Smith of New Jersey and Democrat David Wu of Oregon. But it's still early.

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• Over at the White House, they're trying out a new web campaign to push out into the digital ether, every day, one new number highlighting some key fact of their health care push; "1,115" is their number for the dollars spent, on average, for employer-based health coverage per family each month. The number will live in giant font, it seems, at the top of WhiteHouse.gov each day, and will go out via Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks.
• If a social network worked for the Obama campaign, why can't it work for a Polish social justice movement?
• And holding staff tweets against their bosses.

(With Micah Sifry and Nick Judd)

• Organizing for America is fundraising off of the Republican National Committee fundraising document that portrayed Obama as the Joke and Harry Reid as Scooby Doo, writing "We cannot let the lowest form of politics derail the progress we've made for the American people." Worth keeping in mind is that both the right and left are eager to fundraise from small donors, and are still working out just want sort of framing and language might work best in those efforts.
• The U.S. Treasury Department takes to Twitter, becoming the latest federal agency to start tweeting.
• What's Treasury got to tweet about, you ask? Well, for one thing, the news that they've opened up places like Cuba and Iran to American tech companies like Yahoo and Twitter, freeing them to offer web services in places where U.S. trade restrictions might have chilled their activities.
• "The Comeback Begins": South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint and Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican hoping to join his mentor in the Senate, are traveling across South Carolina in pursuit of $100,000, and the duo's road trip has its own website -- DeMintRubio.com.
• And Joe Rospars talks the future of tech on the BBC's Digital Giants.

(With Nick Judd)