Another one, that is. Vice President Joe Biden's economist-in-chief Jared Bernstein announced in a post on the White House blog that he's got his own blog in the works: the "Middle Class Task Force Blog," housed at the new AStrongMiddleClass.gov. Bernstein's site joins Recovery.gov and FinancialStability.gov on the growing list of stand-alone micro-sites the domain-happy administration is launching. The new URL, though, simply redirects to a directory on the whitehouse.gov domain, and the blog is, for now, a handful of middle-classy posts from the main White House blog.

Bernstein isn't new to blogging. He's been a frequent contributor over on the Talking Points Memo empire's TPM Cafe. Sample line: "First, the chutzpah of Paulson and the administration is astounding...)

There was some outcry over the transition's use of Change.gov, which required a waiver from GSA. But the administration seems on firmer footing here. After all, now that they're running the executive branch, ".gov" is largely theirs to play with.

• To some extent, this weekend was the semester's first exam for Organizing for America. So, how'd the new organization, an outgrowth of the Obama campaign, perform? Depends who you ask...
• The White House's nameless, faceless blogger responds to criticisms about the new administration's breaking of its five-day legislative review period pledge. In short, the message is 'We're working on it'...
• As a supposed fix for "viruses and malware," the Maryland General Assembly has taken to blocking Facebook and My Space...
• Audio cuts of some of the more, um, colloquial passages from Obama's recording of his "Dreams From My Father" are now bopping around the web...
• And more.

• One of the hottest questions in participatory politics right now has to do with the future of Organizing for America, the DNC-housed organization that evolved out of the Obama campaign...
• We've talked in this space about a promise made by the Obama White House to post non-emergency legislation to WhiteHouse.gov for a full five days before presidential signing -- a promise that was broken with the Lilly Ledbetter Act. Attempting to do a better job of it, the White House has posted the Senate-passed version of legislation extending SCHIP. Great, but the posting raises a great many questions...
• Just launched is the new Bush-Cheney Alumni Association website. For servants of a president who made a point of pooh-poohing talk of legacy, the alumni seem awfully eager to write their draft of history...
• The line between friend and ATM can already be awfully fuzzy for a politician, and it's getting even blurrier thanks to Facebook...
• And more.

If you stop by our part of the Internet often, you'll know that here on techPres we've been interestedly tracking what would become of the energy, momentum, and -- perhaps most importantly -- the networks of people that drove the historic Obama presidential campaign. Recently, President Obama himself and senior campaign officials provided part of the answer by announcing the creation of Organizing for America, a "grassroots" organization that would continue to seek the change that powered the campaign.

But you can't help but notice something happening -- or rather, not happening -- this week. As Obama faces a major legislative battle over a multibillion dollar package intended to stimulate the struggling economy, his allies are not OFAers but congressional and business leaders. Those grassroots supporters haven't been called on to help craft or pass a bill that will likely shape America's economic future for decades to come. The message coming from Washington is a distinct, "No worries, we'll take care of this." Why is that?

• The LA Times' Peter Wallsten serves up what at first glance looks like some juicy details on what evolution of Barack Obama's campaign organization will look like once he puts his hand on the Bible Tuesday. Dig into it a bit, though, and it starts to read a lot like a super-charged version of the 50 State Strategy that Howard Dean pioneered at the DNC...
• In retrospect, writes Media Channel's Danny Schechter, we all failed to appreciate how much the Obama campaign created its "own media apparatus," one that shifted the balance of power between the candidate and the press...
• The White House Office of Drug Control Policy might be on Twitter, but they're having a tougher time taking to Facebook...
• And much more.

People seemed to enjoy the last YouTube video we posted from TARP overseer Elizabeth Warren, so hey, let's go back to that well. Warren, you might remember, heads up the congressionally-mandated panel whose job it is to watch over how the Treasury Department manages the $700 billion or so in funds allocated for the financial industry bailout. That's a big job, of course. And in the time-honored Washington tradition of creating critically-important commissions and then leaving appointees to fend for themselves, we learned from Warren's last video that the Congressional Oversight Panel (which goes by the awesome shorthand of "COP") that the commission had yet to procure a coffee maker.

YouTube, though, sets up Warren to route around all those inadequacies facing her five-member commission. Resources be damned, she's making her case directly to the people. It doesn't, however, seem like a whole lot of people are paying attention.

Joining the growing list of President-elect Barack Obama's experiments in interactivity is the Citizen's Briefing Book...Politico's Ben Smith points us to what looks like a new webisode of "The West Wing," but what turns out to be a new seven-minute video in which key soon-to-be Obama Administration figures make the case for the President-elect's stimulus package...Harvard's Elizabeth Warren, the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel overseeing how the Treasury Department's handles the Troubled Asset Relief Program, thinks Henry Paulson et al is guilty of delivering "non-answers."How do we know those juicy details? She said so, in a YouTube video posted to a new and improved cops.senate.gov site...and more.

Putting together a policy briefing book for your boss is one of the toughest jobs handed to a political staffer. There's a strong desire to present him or her with the latest and best intelligence on a particular issue area, without making yourself look like a complete idiot in the process. With the new Citizens' Briefing Book, the Obama transition team has gone all "boy, whitewashing this fence is fun!" with the task -- outsourcing the incoming president's briefing book to, well, us.

(We recently posted a white paper from the Federal Web Managers Council detailing how the incoming presidential administration should focus on "putting citizens first" when it comes to the web. The FWMC, an interagency group composed of more than two dozen web managers from cabinet-level agencies, independent agencies, and the legislative and judicial branches, was established in 2004 to build U.S. government sites "on par with the best websites in the world" and create a nationwide community of skilled and creative government web managers. Earlier this year, the FWMC began preparing for the 2009 presidential transition. The incoming administration will enter a world where rules and regulations make the simplest Web 2.0 acts -- posting to YouTube or creating a Facebook group, for example -- the cause of bureaucratic headaches. Those are challenges the members of FWMC know intimately, and in this new paper, "Social Media and the Federal Government," they detail how the Obama administration can overcome them. -- the editors)

Dozens of senior web managers spanning federal agencies from USDA to HUD to NASA to EPA to ASDF (okay, we made that last one up) have penned a useful white paper with recommendations for the next presidential administration...This latest and last video installment of the life and times of Barney, the White House dog, is truly something to behold. The Bush family gathers to celebrate Christmas in this stilted and scripted piece, and you have to get a load of the President acting out some intentionally goofy lines, like when he admonishes his pet to quit "nappin' to the finish"...If you ever get the question from colleagues, allies, or clients, "We want to get all web 2.0 up in this piece. Hmm, where do we start?," then we've got something for you...and more.