• As the Obama "Campaign" Talks Amongst Itself...: Scores of Obama campaign field organizers and some selected volunteers gathered at a Chicago hotel this weekend for what the LA Times' Peter Wallsten reported would be a marathon session dedicated to figuring out what's next for the Obama organization outside the White House. Legendary organizer Marshall Ganz isn't alone in thinking that the campaign, such as it is, has looked a bit secretive and meandering in these post-Election Day days. Our Micah Sifry explores the idea that this other Obama transition is wrestling with "fatigue, confusion, and lack of inspiration" -- all banes to organizing, while the Onion (via Gawker) offers its own unique analysis: "Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are."

• The Transition Forges Ahead: Meanwhile, over at President-elect Obama's official hangout, a.k.a. Change.gov, the transition team is offering the public a seat at the table, as Nancy Scola reports. Under the direction of transition leader John Podesta, briefing memos from all official meetings are being posted online, to be collectively chewed over. The transition seems hungry to raise the stakes on open government. But as was often the case in the campaign, a confident Obama is willing to offer a Babe Ruthian pointer to the center field seats, promising a home run.

• Crowdsourcing the Recount: As the battle between Norm Coleman and Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race reaches its one-millionth day, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Tribune wants readers to help make sense of the stray marks and odd scrawlings marring contested paper ballots (via Ethan Zuckerman). This crowd accounting is helping the paper to forecast the recount. And for the public, the experiment is an intriguing peek at how so many fellow voters can possibly manage to make their voting-booth intent less than clear.

• Facebook, For All Time: With the incoming Obama administration vetting job applicants' online jottings and social-network profiles, Politico's Eamon Javers is asking whether the fact that your Facebook profile lists your favorite movie as "Fletch" will forevermore be recorded in the National Archives -- a particularly relevant question as Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau turns out to be the star of a few Facebook photos showing him in a compromising position with a cardboard cut-out of a certain member of his boss's cabinet.

• A Look Back at Mumbai and Twitter: Both locals and onlookers showed a good detail of restraint using Twitter to report on the devastating terrorist attacks in Mumbai, says social media expert Gaurav Mishra on NPR's On the Media. With so little of the now desiccated foreign press reporting from on the ground in India during the attacks, many of us, says Guarav, were dependent on what was being tweeted.

In Case You Missed It...

Nancy Scola suggests that perhaps the time has come for an OpenID-style "GovID," aimed at breaking down government silos online. Nancy also highlights some visual quick-start guides to modern political action, from smart mobbing to bypassing Internet proxies, and reports on an Obama election protection official who says that election '08 was really a mess, that only those inside Obama HQ could see.

And Peter Daou profiles the ever-changing online commentariat "whose pointed opinions shape our worldview and whose influence on the 2008 election was nothing short of decretive."