The New York Times editorial board is urging President-elect Obama to embrace the idea that restoring the U.S.'s rightful place at the vanguard of the Internet could be a centerpiece of his presidential legacy...Anyone kicking in coin to the Presidential Inauguration Committee is finding themselves included in a searchable and sortable online database...As the Nation's Ari Melber reports, the transition team has posted responses to the top five queries that came out of its "Open for Questions" feature, but to what end?...and a good deal more.

Rick Jacobs (left) in conversation with Brave New Films' Robert Greenwald (Photo credit: Brave New Films)

If you're a Proposition 8 opponent who reacted in complete horror to the majority of California voters getting behind a ban on same-sex marriage in the state constitution, well, then, you're no Rick Jacobs. That's not to say the head of California's Courage Campaign wasn't thoroughly upset by the victory. It's just that, in its triumph, he sees a crumbling of a dated, obsolete way of doing gay politics -- an end to the top-down approach dictated by "gay white people" who make up the LGBTQ political establishment.

And its place, predicts Jacobs, the former director of Howard Dean's 2004 California operation, will be a vibrant political movement centered on grassroots, distributed power. "That was missing in the No on 8 campaign," told me by phone while he was on the road in Houston.