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.

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.

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:

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.

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.