Back in November, I wrote an update on the saga of the missing White House emails. For some, the Bush administration's reticence to retrieve the missing emails (as requested by an ongoing lawsuit) was emblematic of their lack of transparency and their lack of tech savvy.

On January 21, one day after the inauguration, the Obama administration filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

You might have heard that President-elect Barack Obama posted a speech billed as "Your Weekly Address" to YouTube this weekend. What was largely a three-and-a-half-minute stump speech on the economy -- made presidential-ish by virtue of being delivered from behind a desk and in front of legal tomes -- now has more than 700,000 views, as our Micah Sifry notes. First, a dose of bah humbug...; There are a lot of life changes in store for President Obama -- new job, new house, new school for his girls. And now he has to give up his beloved Blackberry, too?; Google.org's Larry Brilliant, reports ZDNet's Tim Ferguson, says that it's now the job of the technology industry to help save the world; and a good helping more.

Early last week, a federal judge ruled in favor of transparency advocates seeking to preserve a slew of poorly stored White House email.

Now, a ruling in a separate case makes this saga a bit murkier.

The New York Times' Michael Falone makes note of a happening that Michael Whitney highlighted on techPresident earlier this week: Change.gov, the Obama-Biden transition site, quietly dropped an "Agenda" section that appeared largely cribbed from campaign materials, replacing it with an oblique 100 words on what's considered important by the incoming Obama-Biden administration; ABC News' Rick Klein has a good overview piece on some of the legal and logistical questions facing the digital arm of Team Obama as it moves into the presidency; If one of the 10 million emails the Obama campaign collected happens to belong to you, you likely recently got a request for cash donations to help the Democratic National Committee "recover the resources it took to win;" and a good helping more.