Daily Digest: GOP Luddism, Think-Tank Blogging, and Getting to Know Genachowski

With sitting Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan signing on to the tech-fueled Rebuild the Party movement, South Carolina GOP head Katon Dawson stands as the sole announced candidate for GOP chair not yet jumping on board the grasstops effort...The Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund's acting CEO Jennifer Palmieri has jumped into CAP blogger Matt Yglesias's blog space to issue a "special note"...The Sunlight Foundation's Labs project is starting to take itself a bit more seriously. They're shifting into the next phase of conquering Washington via API and databases, seeing themselves as less an experiment in transparency than as an ongoing concern...and more.