• There's just something so warm and fuzzy about this. An Albany grandmother uses her fax machine to tweet. It's a great way to communicate with her family, she says without having to get on the phone -- which she appreciates, because her daughter "talks too much."
• The Energy Department is experimenting with a "linked data" platform for energy information that takes a page from Wikipedia.
• Introducing fiscal haikus.
• Meg Whitman is finding resistance in her own comments.
• Keeping it real with Michael Steele.

(With Micah Sifry)