• About that Department of Labor live web chat we mentioned, here's Secretary Solis participating in it, having signed up for a 15-minute slot in the DOL computer lab.
• A challenge to our fractured musical landscape: a playlist for 21st century politics.
• FEMA and the FCC settle on a mobile emergency alerts standard -- 90 characters, targeted to geography.
• Is you enjoyed Patrick Ruffini's recent video essay on BarackObama.com's A/B splash page testing, there's a good chance you'll also appreciate this campaign-era Google talk on how the Obama campaign tried out various configurations of its website. The relevant part starts about ten minutes in.
• MilFresh is like GovFresh, except, you know, more miltary.
• An interview of our Andrew Rasiej with NextGenWeb.
• Event notice: an Open NY summit and codeathon in New York City this weekend.
• And the UK drops thirty million pounds on getting a million folks online.

(With Micah Sifry and Nick Judd)