The campaign never ends?
Right now, grassroots organizers across the country are gearing up for tomorrow’s Pledge Project Canvasses, the first large-scale effort to organize support for President Obama’s economic plan since the election. Anyone who was on last night’s conference call for the event hosts can tell you that there was a feeling of excitement [...]

TheStreet.com’s CEO quits immediately after last night’s interview.
Not sure why. After all, the interview that Stewart used to bludgeon Cramer with has been around for quite some time…and on TheStreet.com.
But nonetheless…
Friday brought more tumult for CNBC anchor Jim Cramer, when the chief executive of his online financial news site, The Street.com, resigned.
The company announced [...]

Do you know which one?
Tyler Cowen does.

Hey all,
So some of you probably noticed that on Saturday and Sunday the site was completely gone. Even I couldn’t get into it to post a message.
The reason? Our hosting service, Media Temple, had a complete meltdown that caused loss of service for nearly 25% of the smaller sites that they host. Unfortunately Donklephant [...]

Veritocracy is a new social news recommendation site that I’ve been trying out behind the scenes for a couple months and now you have the opportunity to try it before it launches.
My contact over there explains it better than I so check this out and if you have any interest to use the technology before [...]

This is rich…
After dismissing calls for the Bush email system to be more accountable, Rep. Darrell Issa of California is demanding that the Obama administration report back to him in two weeks about how they plan on archiving and saving emails they had to send via Gmail because the Bush system kept breaking down.
From CNN:
A [...]

No more placeholders.
The site has finally launched and it has some good content, Including links to pretty much anything they have created about the bill and a place to share your story.
There’s also a map that details how many jobs in each state will be created or saved in the next 2 years. Missouri will [...]

A glimpse of the future today.
This isn’t necessarily related to politics, but the following tech is pretty huge if you’ve been following the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) space.

So yeah, they’re cool, but what could be the most significant thing about these displays is that they don’t require a backlight and so they use significantly less [...]

We were SLAMMED by reddit today, so my apologies about the site not being accessible. That’s what happens when you get 3,000 page views per hour.
In any event, I’m working with our dev team to optimize the site in a variety of different ways so it doesn’t happen again.
Thanks for sticking with us.

Pretty self explanatory. A site dedicated to searching through all the 1,500+ pages of the new stimulus bill.
Here’s a sample…
1/23 Bill Text: PDF/TXT
1/22 Approved Amends: PDF/TXT
1/21 Telecom Amends: PDF/TXT
1/16 Tax Provisions: PDF/TXT
1/16 Health & Insur.: PDF/TXT
1/16 Energy Amends: PDF/TXT
1/15 Committee Report: PDF/TXT
1/15 Bill Text: PDF/TXT
Now, the site’s sponsors are all far right-wing sites like a [...]

Most the following video is about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, but the big idea here is that along with the passage of the stimulus plan comes a new website (just a landing page so far) that will keep track of where and how tax dollars are being spent.

Obviously this is an unprecedented level [...]

Although the President won 2008 with the latest and greatest tech, it looks like the White House has considerable limitations when it comes to what type of innovative techniques can and can’t be done within its walls.
From Wash Post:
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the [...]

Web guru Jason Kottke points out that the Bush administration had almost 2,400 different rules governing what search engines could crawl on the site and report in their results. This was most likely done so that no caches could be created to later compare with any changes that were made.
But seriously, most of them aren’t [...]

Obama carries over the look and feel of his campaign and the results are light years ahead of White House websites of the past.

Still, Megan McArdle did some digging and she’s a bit frustrated…
Unfortunately, that sleekness has been achieved by tucking even more of that unsightly information out of the way, where it won’t mar [...]

But there are still some problems…
From AFP:
Obama did not divulge just how he will overcome legal constraints, given the requirement of the post-Watergate Presidential Records Act of 1978 to keep a record of every White House communication.
Nor did he say how he would persuade his Secret Service protectors that the Blackberry does not pose [...]

The Architect (of the GOP’s demise?) is on the microblogging/messaging platform and I’m almost 100% sure it’s actually him. The only reason I say that is because some folks have created fake accounts, including somebody claiming to be Karl Rove.
In any event, whatever you may think of Rove, I think most people will acknowledge that [...]

Watch this…

Spooky, but I totally want one.
(h/t: TechCrunch)

For those of you who use the microblogging service (I’m @jpgardner), you’ve probably heard about thousands of accounts being hacked.
Now the President Elect has found himself in the middle of this mess and MSNBC has more…

What’s funny is that Obama hasn’t posted anything since November 5th so the idea that he would just offer up [...]

 Estonia is setting the world standard for incorporating technology and voting. Last year, Estonia operated a successful internet voting election. In 2011, Estonia will become the first country to allow voting by cell phone.
Voters will be required to get a special chip for their cell phone. The chips are free and allow for the authentification [...]