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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)

• Protests against school funding cuts in California are being documented on YouTube.
• Where everyone (English-speaking, at least) now gets autocaptioning.
• Using tech to support dissent beyond California.
• Sebelius webchatted about health care reform.
• How information flows during election observation: some notes from Kenya.
• Introducing Distraction.gov.
• Sunlight posts its House expenditure database.
• And thinking of open analytics as part of open government.

(With Micah Sifry)

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• Google rolls out a People Finder to connect folks left disconnected by this weekend's earthquake in Chile.
• Call him #PhilippeReines: one of Secretary Clinton's tweet-averse top communications advisors at the State Department, reports Politico, is wading into the Twitter waters by guest posting on @dipnote during the Secretary's trip through South America this week. A sample: "#PhilippeReines: In San Juan, refueling. Never dull moment w SHRC-adding stop tmrw pm-Buenos Aires, to meet w Pres. of Argentina de Kirchner."
• More progress on the Scott Brown Senate website front!
• Are we losing the cyber war?
• A review of John McCain's video wall.
• A look at the brewing Coffee Party "movement."
• The New York Times' coders upgrade their Congress API.
• Hill Republicans do a concerted Twitter push.
• More tweets were sent that linked to SunlightFoundation.com/Live than WhiteHouse.gov/Live during last week's health care powwow, and other insights into exactly how Sunlight's live meta-summit worked.
• The modern twist on the timeless student protest: what they're protesting is AT&T's poor cell phone coverage. (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
• And a campaign veteran sizes up the new MiniVAN: "For old timers who chased around with sheaves of paper and clipboards, this is as big as news gets."

(With Micah Sifry)

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• DC's public safety division has some fun with its 404 page.
• The White House urges folks to participate in federal agencies' idea-gathering phase.
• Dozens of independent federal agencies haven't put up open government pages, as they were encouraged to do.
• Maybe that's something that Beth Noveck, Deputy U.S. CTO for open government, will talk about in her upcoming session on "transparent government" with the Long Now Foundation.
• As you move from the so-called Silent Generation (65+) down the Millennials (18-29), finds Pew, faith in government's potential to make things better steadily increases. (This is an extra-recommended click-through. Lots of good data in that post.)
• Here's where you go to talk about the intersection of social media and law enforcement.
• An email -- direct from the outbox of "The Internet" itself! -- announces the dates for Politics Online 2010. Says 'Net, it'll be April 19th and 20th in DC.
• DC's OCTO holds a broadband summit.
• Mapping drone strikes.
• Jon Henke, Michael Turk, and Matthew Dybwad join the team at the digital media firm CRAFT.
• Some tweeters kindly request that CNN's best political team on television shut it during today's health care summit.
• TechRepublican's Meghann Olshefski recaps CPAC's digital bootcamp.
• Is your outreach appropriately diverse?
• The Office of National Coordinator of Health IT is now on Twitter, at @ONC_HealthIT.
• North Carolina Senate candidate Ken Lewis wants you to ask him anything.
• And finally, a bit of housekeeping -- that's it for me until Monday, as I'm taking a long weekend trip to the west coast. Have a good one.

(With Micah Sifry)

• White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer uses the White House blog to tweak Republicans for not matching the Obama administration's recent posting of a health care package. "Previously we were told this was the House Republican bill," needled Pfeiffer. "Is it still?" (via Ari Melber)
• Culture shock: an Iraqi IT intern brought over by the State Department learns how to handle a Mac.
• A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing tomorrow takes up the question of what are the proper commercial uses of the fact that your gadgets know where you are. (via Leslie Harris)
• More on mobile in the McDonnell win.
• And USA.gov is looking for some help making videos that showcase the site's wares.

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• Open gov gets a logo.*
• Looks like they could use that out in Wyoming.
• And Illinois.
• The VAN gets an iPhone app.
• The FCC chair says that the national broadband plan scheduled for delivery next month (who else just can't wait?!) will include a proposal to bring 100 megabit per second broadband to 100 million American households.
• Progress on the Scott Brown website front! If you can call this progress.
• Evan Bayh, not so much a fan of the bloggers.
• If he were British, he might have to quit there too: looks like bloggers are going to be invited into Parliament.
• And finally, Martin Bosworth, a well-known and well-liked figure on the online left, passed away last night. Rest in peace, Martin.

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

• Direct mail guru Richard Viguerie emails about the Young Cons, a "musical duo of Dartmouth grads [whose] new YouTube video, 'The Problem,' uses hip hop to take Ronald Reagan's message to the Millennial Generation." And "[j]udging by the group's growing popularity, the message seems to be resonating with the under 30 crowd." One thing's for sure, it'll stick in your head. And yes, the Gip makes several Waldo-like appearances.
• Some tips for creating non-profit online communities.
• Still no website for Sen. Scott Brown.
• Here's how to search Buzz.
• Game on. That Atlantic session on the state of tech that we've mentioned has been rescheduled for a week from today.
• And here's another event worth noting: a session on "transparency, accountability, [and] collaboration" in both the U.S. and U.K., featuring Deputy U.S. CTO Andrew McLaughlin and the Prospect's James Crabtree.

(With Micah Sifry)

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• After several seconds of confusion, it's become clear that @FentyDC isn't really that Fenty from DC. ("I appreciate the accolades on the snow removal, but please stop calling me "Mr. Plow.")
• The thrill of Twitter seems to have worn off for possible New York Senate candidate Harold Ford.
• Check out Track.DC.gov, a new portal onto government data that the city is promoting as "your resource as a District of Columbia resident to track how District Government is working for you." At first look, it looks a lot like the site is a place to point to city and apps already otherwise available on the web, as well as to post cute headshots of city officials.
• Recovery.gov opens itself up so that stimulus recipients can edit their data bi-weekly, rather than having just a few weeks after posting to do it.
• The White House blog piles on Newt Gingrich, fact-checking his Daily Show appearance and offering a subtle reminder of the nationality of the shoe bomber. British! Who knew.
• The White House releases its 2o1o Economic Report of the President in Kindle, nook, Reader, and other eBook formats! Really, does it get any geekier? (via @anamariecox)
• The White House's Office of Science and Techonology revamps its website, including moving its blog from WordPress to Drupal. (Their self-assessment: "Old site: So 1990s / New site: Totally 2010." It helps that 2010 still sounds futuristic.)
• The White House's new Open Government Dashboard is, in the eyes of some, not really much of anything yet.
• Must every item begin with the words "The White House"?
• The White House press corps (dang!) is concerned that they're being foresaken in favor of Twitter and YouTube.
• Tech Republican's boot camp at CPAC will be sponsored by Google.
• Google picks up the social search service Aardvark.
• LegalTube.com lets you audition your lawyers before you hire them.
• And Barbie finds her next career. (via @tracyrusso) "Wearing a binary code patterned tee and equipped with all the latest gadgets including a smart phone, Bluetooth headset, and laptop travel bag, Computer Engineer Barbie® is geek chic."

We'll be off on Monday for Presidents Day, everybody. Have a good one.

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• Wee bit of snow in our nation's capital.
• A "Free the Hikers" YouTube campaign picks up steam.
• TechStat is like CompStat for government IT projects, and Vivek Kundra wants to do more of it.
• FoxNews traces the supposed conspiracy behind an anti-Tea Party site, but Megan McArdle finds their protestations against astroturfing a bit rich.
• And French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is getting made fun of for referencing a supposed thinker whose own Wikipedia entry notes that he doesn't actually exist, at least not in corporeal form.