Sean Dennehy and Don Burke, the CIA's lead curators and advocates for Intellipedia, have been nominated for the Service To America medal:

When Sean Dennehy and Don Burke were tasked with increasing knowledge sharing across the intelligence community in 2005, it was like being asked to promote vegetarianism in Texas. Against the odds, these analysts in the Central Intelligence Agency have succeeded in creating a tool that breaks with the prevailing culture, increases the flow of information and ultimately makes our country safer...

When an intelligence analyst writes a paper, it quickly becomes stale; in some cases, because of the time it takes to review and publish reports, they're stale before anyone ever sees them. With Intellipedia (which is a slightly modified MediaWiki installation), analysts and policymakers can always have a live version of the Intelligence Community's collective knowledge and assessments.

ODNI and CIA officials were quick to recognize the magnitude of Burke and Dennehy’s accomplishment. "It’s hard to overstate what they did," Eric Haseltine, former chief technology officer of the intelligence community, said. "They made a major transformation almost overnight with no money after other programs failed to achieve these results with millions of dollars in funding." (emphasis added)

With it's last-ditch Night of Facebook Action, the anti-FISA group that was organized to protest Barack Obama's stance on the bill is turning into a case study in "worth a try" activism; Carly Fiorina is on the trail and defending John McCain's tech cred; we take a look at a dust-up over congressional rules on third-party web tools; a Daily Kos diarist pushes back against calls for millenials to take their activism to meat space; and much, much more.

Kentucky bloggers are taking back their state's Democratic Party, one wiki entry at a time.  This week Ben Carter and Joe Sonka, proprietors of the progressive Kentucky blog BlueGrassRoots, announced the creation of BlueGrassWiki.  The project aims to organize information about Kentucky's 120 county parties in order to "infiltrate" local leadership in upcoming party precinct elections.