• Above, Deputy U.S. CTO Andrew McLaughlin (or as he puts it on his Twitter profile, "Deputy Chief Nerd @ the White House") talks about the concrete work he's hoping to see come out of Crisis Camp, Haiti edition. In particular, he zeros in on a project that is working on building a standard emergency assessment taxonomy, and then evangelizing to get those working in crisis situations to use it.
• Inside the Little Green Footballs very big blog fight.
• Organzing for America texts, but nope, it's not the first time. They SMS'd it for Coakley, at least.
• Is OFA recruiting campaign staff? They're hiring an email campaigner, at least.
• (Just noting for the record, again, that there's something a little structurally curious about talking about Organizing for America as a grassroots organization while continuing to host it on BarackObama.com.)
• White House ethics dude Norm Eisen pushes back against a WaPo story that questions progress on the FOIA front.
• Confirm your hunches about birthers.
• Get your proposals in for Computers, Freedom, Privacy '10.
• Four out of five federal agencies in the U.S. have failed to deploy DNSSEC web platform protection measures. What, do we have to spell out everything for you? Err, it seems to have to do with tweaking some sort of digital signature on their websites that make them harder to invade. With hacking attacks in the news in light of the Google-China blowup, it's a helpful reminder that cybersecurity begins at home.
• Did you hear that Internet sensation Andrew O'Keefe, a.k.a. the ACORN pimp, got himself arrested for alledgely attempting to tap Sen. Landrieu's phones?
• Transparency Camp 2010 has been scheduled for late March.
• Tea partiers are having trouble convening.
• Virtual Yellowstone.
• So, can candidates take text contributions, a la Haiti relief? (via Tech Republican)

(With Micah Sifry and Nick Judd)