Law enforcement in Mumbai, the Indian city that has been the scene of devastating terrorist attacks this week, invoked section 19 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act of 1995 in an attempt to clamp down upon TV networks' live reporting coming out of the city. "Coverage of the actions taken by the police against the terrorists in South Mumbai," reported India's Business Standard, "is causing impediment in the police action."

A news black out might stop TV crews from broadcasting. But it hasn't done much to stem the stream of live news about the coordinated attacks pouring out of Mumbai via all forms of social media, from Twitter to Flickr to Wikipedia.

If the air seems to be crackling with excitement today, it might be because Google has just connected up Google Maps with the Voting Information Project (VIP) polling place data that it and Pew and JEHT have been working to compile. Hooray!; Text messages sent on Election Day that urge recipients to vote increase turnout by 4.6 percentage points, according a just-released study by CREDO Mobile and Student PIRGs New Voters Project; The Republican National Committee is eager to keep focus on how tight-lipped the Obama campaign has remained about its contributors who fall under the law's $200 mandatory disclosure mark. And so, yesterday, the RNC released a database of GOP small donors. The thing is, the thing doesn't actually work -- at least, not in any meaningful way; and a good amount more.