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!

Jon Stahl reflects on the victory of "a decentralized network of citizens and media activists [that] took on the 'old media' network of Sinclair Broadcasting" and draws some interesting lessons:

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.

What is it with Republicans confusing .coms and .orgs? The GeorgeWBush.org parody site gets a lot of misdirected mail at their catchall address. Amidst the chaff were the occasional strategic or informative message sent to ad-hoc cc lists of Republican operatives, including a few that discuss out-of-compliance local campaign organizations and, most telling, a few with attached spreadsheets identifying lists of voters in a few Florida precincts.

The collection of essays now known as Extreme Democracy should appear in book form early next year, but it is coming out in serialized PDF (portadble document format) at the moment at the project's blog.

Flickr is a photo sharing social medium application for the web that enables people to tag their photos with key words and then view or even subscribe to a feed of all photos that share a given tag.

For a fly-on-the-wall view of voting today around the country, check out the page for photos tagged with 'vote' at Flickr.

At the liberal Daily Kos and conservative Red State community weblogs, reports of questionable behavior at polls or in GOTV (get out the vote) efforts are flooding in today. Here's a brief survey gathered over the course of the last hour:

1. Federal Judge Finds Intimidation of Native Americans in South Dakota
2. Challenging the challengers
3. Boilerplate talking points in line
4. Republicans challenging every voter in two locations in Racine, WI
5. Ohio journalists sneaking into polls despite ban
6. Emily's List misdirecting voters to polls in SC
7. MoveOn volunteers encroaching on polling places
8. False Schwarzkopf call spliced onto McPeak robocall?
9. DNC denies it

Overheard on the #joho irc (chat) channel on irc.freenode.net:

akma: From #joiito -- ptorrone: Overheard in line at polling place this morning.... "I think all the ones with the white headphones are voting for Kerry"

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:

Just in case your boss doesn't believe you when you say that a static website won't suffice anymore for whatever kind of political work you do, check out this new study from ACNeilsen: 87 percent of all Americans say they are a part of an online community, and while shared personal interests, hobbies and health-related communities rank very high, 49 percent of Americans also say they participate in public issue sites.