• How Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Is Trying to Start Over After a Shaky First Hundred Days
  The New York senator's second act.
• Michael Pollan or Michel Foucault?
  Honest to gosh, these are two men who closely resemble one another.
• Using Psychology To Save You From Yourself
  NPR takes its turn with behavioral economics and Obama's Washington.

• Need to share a rather awesome tool find: http://backtweets.com tracks links to pages by full URL, even if they've been shortened in-tweet. #

• Obama’s Team Works Congress From the Inside
  Matt Bai takes a look at the White House's networked approach to Capitol Hill.

• Had a relative share with me today that I look like an "evil imp" in the photo on my website. There's just nothing like family, is there? #

• The best part may well be the Shepard Fairey-meets-Pavlov's dog artwork they put to it. (http://bit.ly/obama_behavior_web) 2/2 #
• While I'm pretty happy with how my @seedmag piece on Obama, behavior, and the web — http://bit.ly/obama_behavior_web — turned out… 1/2 #

I guess we're the dog.

Reading some of the really intriguing recent articles about the Obama world's embrace of behavioral economics (see here and here, for example), I decided to take a look at the one place where the President kinda does have full control, a space where the new administration can put to work its theories on choice architecture, nudging, and the like: the web.

Hope you'll give it a read.