From Lessig's political "spam" message about the new p2p-politics site that is leveraging archive.org to provide an open source for political ads:

One out of four American adults have rated a product, service or person using online reputation systems, according to this new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And that's not counting the under 18-year-olds!

Advokit is an open-source grassroots-network voter-file campaign-management tool developed by veterans of the Dean primary campaign and available either as a hosted (ASP) service or as a stand-alone install.

The most popular political weblogs have been able to support their publishers through an intermediary called Blogads. As this election season heated up, most of the top sites saw extreme traffic spikes and have been able to set lucrative- but- competitive prices for ad views (not clickthrough) on their sites.

The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) began from "a proposal to develop a pilot project in one county in California" and has spawned the voter verifiable, open-source
Electronic Voting Machine project:

If you can get the Real Audio link to work, you can hear an interview I just did with public radio's "Future Tense" program on my Nation article on open-source politics. Mary Hodder says she heard me on KALW in San Francisco today, so the piece is out there.

One of the things I said, which I hope didn't end up on the cutting room floor, is that I'm hoping to participate in an open-source style discussion of just what open-source politics might look like.

There are two tiers of blog advertising for liberal blogs - the big boys and everyone else. Atrios, Daily Kos, and Talking Points Memo are still doing ok, although their revenue has tumbled. Everyone else is nearly dry, as marketers try to figure out what kind of political content will still sell.

The Heritage Society's Press Room policy weblog cites the new weblog of Mark Tapscott, the director of Heritage's Center for Media and Public Policy at Heritage, called Copy Desk, and and notes that his first entry speculates about whether the blogosphere will transform government in the same way it has challenged the mainstream media (also known as the MSM in blogger, especially right-wing blogger, circles).

His opinion on this matter is fairly straightforward:

My answer is an enthusiastic yes and my purpose with this blog is to do whatever I can to encourage this revolutionary process forward.

In Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall discusses reforming the way bills are passed in Congress without adequate review.

TPM readers suggested that blogs and their readers be harnessed to comb through future bills to uncover whatever foolish, nefarious or simply unconscionable provisions might be lurking inside them.

At first, as I said, though the intention seemed admirable, I wasn't particularly impressed by this idea. But over a few days, as I considered it further, it occurred to me that maybe I was the one who wasn't being realistic or rather was too stuck in conventional ways of thinking.....

Democrats are already pushing for a return to the observance of the rule which mandated that members of congress must be given at least three days to review legislation in its final form before it was called to a vote.

But why stop there? ...

The Berkman Society at Harvard is focusing its Internet + Society conference in December on politics and technology (Is the Internet Still on the Political Fringe?). Looks like PDF editor David Weinberger is speaking there, so maybe he can tell us more about the event. Wish I could make it, but I'm hoping there'll be good online coverage.