Daily Digest: Is the Internet Reviving Old-Fashioned Politics?

Out of the minds of Google's Creative Lab's, where Googlers go to whip up the future, comes VoteHour.org. CEOs from eBay's John Donahoe to KPMG's Tim Flynn to the Donald himself urge their minions to take an hour from their work day to go vote; What's missing from GOP.com?, asks Mother Jones' Jonathan Stein. The answer is: a guy by the name of John McCain; Gartner Research group is out with a fascinating look at the state of government "social computing," which includes everything from social networks to collaborative web tools; and quite a bit more.