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• Organizing for America launches a little visualizer front-end interface for their campaign to have supporters send in signs saying why they're backing health care reform.
• That Google DC event on online democracy that fell victim to the great snow-valanche of oh-ten has been rescheduled for the end of March.
• The State Department reportedly plans an internal social network.
• And FEMA launches a map that shows you in plain color the flood history of your county.

(With Micah Sifry)

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• Nope, that's not Wall-E in the front row of the White House theater, sitting between Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, as we first thought. Through the miracle that is the "original size" feature on Flickr, you can zoom in and see that it's actually some kind of a purse. Probably Spielberg's.
• As part of Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign, the White House is running an Apps for Healthy Kids competition that offers up $40,000 in prize money for "innovative, fun and engaging tools and games that encourage children directly or through their parents to make more nutritious food choices and be more physically active." The contest seems to bring together some of the Obamas favorite things: vegetables and open government; they want developers to make use of the USDA's nutrition data that it recently released through Data.gov.
• The federal highway folks have was seems to be a new zoomy-in map of federal highway projects.
• And Ben Smith's "Remainders" end-of-the-day link post (which, we freely admit, inspired our "Clearing the Cache" regular feature) figures into a plot line on the rather enjoyable new CBS drama The Good Wife. What a world!

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• U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra reports back in with some basic highlights from his swing to the West Coast last week. On a stop in Silicon Valley, Kundra sat down to brainstorm with "venture capitalists and technology innovators" from companies like Mint.com, Mozilla, and Facebook. What'd they come up with? If you have the vision of a bald eagle, you might be able to make out some details in the storyboard above.
• Here's a map showing the real-time location of the 13 vehicles that the Census Bureau has out and about in the U.S., letting people know about the upcoming head count. Each van is doing its own tweeting from the road.
• Also from the census folks: you can read the census form online, but you can't fill it out there. Yet.
• "For someone who claims to hate the 'Democrat[sic]-media complex,' Breitbart sure knows how to work it."
• TurboTax -- as in, the people who make that tax preparation software -- takes to Twitter to respond to those who had criticized them for supporting a certain political TV show. They tweet, "Thanks everyone for your feedback, & for reminding us of what we value. We’ve pulled advertising from the Glenn Beck show."
• And Mr. Beck is also the target of a new campaign from the likes of MoveOn, Brave New Films, and the SEIU that makes use of that your-name-here technology to make fun of the Beck-board.

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• For just under half an hour yesterday afternoon, there was no power in the Longworth House Office Building. In the United States of America.
• New to Twitter is Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson (@lisapjackson), who is looking to "expand the way we thinking about environmentalism." She might want to talk to Cory Booker about how you go about using Twitter to do some reputational enhancement.
• After some further noodling, Kevin Drum decides that "anonymous" blogger briefings inside the corridors of power can, indeed, be worthwhile.
• Parsing what John Yoo has to say about what became of his Justice Department emails.
• The AP analyzes White House tweet spin.
• And, completing our House of Representatives news sandwich, the House has launched a new caucus on global Internet freedom. There are only two members on board as of now, with Republican Chris Smith of New Jersey and Democrat David Wu of Oregon. But it's still early.

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• Over at the White House, they're trying out a new web campaign to push out into the digital ether, every day, one new number highlighting some key fact of their health care push; "1,115" is their number for the dollars spent, on average, for employer-based health coverage per family each month. The number will live in giant font, it seems, at the top of WhiteHouse.gov each day, and will go out via Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks.
• If a social network worked for the Obama campaign, why can't it work for a Polish social justice movement?
• And holding staff tweets against their bosses.

(With Micah Sifry and Nick Judd)

• Protests against school funding cuts in California are being documented on YouTube.
• Where everyone (English-speaking, at least) now gets autocaptioning.
• Using tech to support dissent beyond California.
• Sebelius webchatted about health care reform.
• How information flows during election observation: some notes from Kenya.
• Introducing Distraction.gov.
• Sunlight posts its House expenditure database.
• And thinking of open analytics as part of open government.

(With Micah Sifry)

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• Google rolls out a People Finder to connect folks left disconnected by this weekend's earthquake in Chile.
• Call him #PhilippeReines: one of Secretary Clinton's tweet-averse top communications advisors at the State Department, reports Politico, is wading into the Twitter waters by guest posting on @dipnote during the Secretary's trip through South America this week. A sample: "#PhilippeReines: In San Juan, refueling. Never dull moment w SHRC-adding stop tmrw pm-Buenos Aires, to meet w Pres. of Argentina de Kirchner."
• More progress on the Scott Brown Senate website front!
• Are we losing the cyber war?
• A review of John McCain's video wall.
• A look at the brewing Coffee Party "movement."
• The New York Times' coders upgrade their Congress API.
• Hill Republicans do a concerted Twitter push.
• More tweets were sent that linked to SunlightFoundation.com/Live than WhiteHouse.gov/Live during last week's health care powwow, and other insights into exactly how Sunlight's live meta-summit worked.
• The modern twist on the timeless student protest: what they're protesting is AT&T's poor cell phone coverage. (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
• And a campaign veteran sizes up the new MiniVAN: "For old timers who chased around with sheaves of paper and clipboards, this is as big as news gets."

(With Micah Sifry)

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• DC's public safety division has some fun with its 404 page.
• The White House urges folks to participate in federal agencies' idea-gathering phase.
• Dozens of independent federal agencies haven't put up open government pages, as they were encouraged to do.
• Maybe that's something that Beth Noveck, Deputy U.S. CTO for open government, will talk about in her upcoming session on "transparent government" with the Long Now Foundation.
• As you move from the so-called Silent Generation (65+) down the Millennials (18-29), finds Pew, faith in government's potential to make things better steadily increases. (This is an extra-recommended click-through. Lots of good data in that post.)
• Here's where you go to talk about the intersection of social media and law enforcement.
• An email -- direct from the outbox of "The Internet" itself! -- announces the dates for Politics Online 2010. Says 'Net, it'll be April 19th and 20th in DC.
• DC's OCTO holds a broadband summit.
• Mapping drone strikes.
• Jon Henke, Michael Turk, and Matthew Dybwad join the team at the digital media firm CRAFT.
• Some tweeters kindly request that CNN's best political team on television shut it during today's health care summit.
• TechRepublican's Meghann Olshefski recaps CPAC's digital bootcamp.
• Is your outreach appropriately diverse?
• The Office of National Coordinator of Health IT is now on Twitter, at @ONC_HealthIT.
• North Carolina Senate candidate Ken Lewis wants you to ask him anything.
• And finally, a bit of housekeeping -- that's it for me until Monday, as I'm taking a long weekend trip to the west coast. Have a good one.

(With Micah Sifry)

• White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer uses the White House blog to tweak Republicans for not matching the Obama administration's recent posting of a health care package. "Previously we were told this was the House Republican bill," needled Pfeiffer. "Is it still?" (via Ari Melber)
• Culture shock: an Iraqi IT intern brought over by the State Department learns how to handle a Mac.
• A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing tomorrow takes up the question of what are the proper commercial uses of the fact that your gadgets know where you are. (via Leslie Harris)
• More on mobile in the McDonnell win.
• And USA.gov is looking for some help making videos that showcase the site's wares.

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• Open gov gets a logo.*
• Looks like they could use that out in Wyoming.
• And Illinois.
• The VAN gets an iPhone app.
• The FCC chair says that the national broadband plan scheduled for delivery next month (who else just can't wait?!) will include a proposal to bring 100 megabit per second broadband to 100 million American households.
• Progress on the Scott Brown website front! If you can call this progress.
• Evan Bayh, not so much a fan of the bloggers.
• If he were British, he might have to quit there too: looks like bloggers are going to be invited into Parliament.
• And finally, Martin Bosworth, a well-known and well-liked figure on the online left, passed away last night. Rest in peace, Martin.

*Note: Our Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry are senior advisors to the Sunlight Foundation.