• Ooh! Just found on Amazon a copy of the FCC's controversial 1946 "Blue Book" on broadcaster duties. Not really sure I can get much cooler. #
• Have you ever actually seen "Who's on First?" It, too, is pretty brilliant. http://bit.ly/kHKRg #
• Don't know if I just missed Strindberg + Helium when it first came out, but I've been laughing about it for a week. http://bit.ly/39ij6f #
• RT @joseiswriting: top moments in tech/politics of the decade — http://bit.ly/7mfasz Sunlight and @techpresident included! // Nice. #

"Social Networks as Foreign Policy" was included in the New York Times Magazine's Year in Ideas issue for 2009, and for those of you whose ears I've bent about the topic, it's a nice encapsulation of an intriguing development. Also, there's a mention of that State Department trip to Mexico City I got a chance to go on, the one dedicated to exploring ways that Mexicans might possibly be better equipped to combat the terrible narco violence there.

One of the funniest things I've seen in quite a while. I must have watched it at least a dozen times so far. Here's the full four web video series featuring the morbid Swedish writer August Strindberg and his high-pitched little friend, Helium.

• You know, when I hear "Barry from DC," it's not Barack Obama who comes to mind first. http://bit.ly/8DozLv #
• The fact that I just momentarily forgot how to spell "Internet" suggests some time off is in order. #
• Worth noting that PdF '10 is returning to its roots in the CUNY Grad Center — http://bit.ly/7072qu #
• Can't shake the sadness over Almodovar's "Broken Embraces." I wanted to love it so. Still, adore his work, and adore Penny in it. #

• Twitter has added tool tips on some trending topics. Helpful, 'cause I often don't know what the heck people are talking about. #
• Shocked, shocked, that this kid is a GW student — http://bit.ly/7Tqlbv (Hail to the buff!) #
• RT @techpresident Bill Killers and Good Enoughers: A quick guide to the online left's health care debate — http://bit.ly/5x5hmI #
• RT @techpresident: From the blog: Announcing PdF 2010: June 3-5 in NYC — http://bit.ly/8bc8jS #

• Just started following @votinginfo for the latest on the Voting Information Project from Google, Pew, NOI, etc. #

• RT @techpresident "Iranian Cyber Army" sets its sights on Twitter | http://bit.ly/67pXnT // Interesting episode, for sure. #
• RT @FakeAPStylebook: Avoid reader confusion about whether Africa is a country or a continent by never writing about it. #

• Feeling like those pilots who overflew their airport by like 150 miles. How is it one o'clock already? #
• Dashboards! How the @whitehouse is measuring #opengov: http://bit.ly/5cmPfM (@techpresident) #
• Nothing says relaxing evening like curling up with a beer and a 230 page report on broadband. #
• Big deal, this: Cuba has locked up a U.S. contractor for equipping civil society groups with cell phones and laptops. http://bit.ly/7SSWzh #

• RT @theprospect: It's not enough just to hate Monsanto: http://tinyurl.com/ycj5ydv // Let's channel that anger into public policy reform! #

• Having used the headline "Meet the FACA," can check it off my bucket list. http://bit.ly/7wqE7H #

• Fascinating anti-extremist address on the Pakistan arrests from their Virginia mosque's imam: "Silence in cyberspace is not an option." #
• Library of Congress added neat 100 year old photos to Flickr. http://bit.ly/wmSS1 Ex., "Italian pupils" in NYC, '15: http://bit.ly/92rBqC #
• Glad some of you all enjoyed my Eggers post (http://bit.ly/6KQ6Wj). Just remembered an another point in his favor: What is the What. #
• Let us not be afraid to draw inspiration from Dave Eggers — http://bit.ly/6KQ6Wj (me over on @theprospect) #

• Top Chef! I'm betting Kevin. Or Brian. Or Michael. But probably Kevin, because ice water runs through his veins. #
• Pretty sure Orrin Hatch wrote his song with the aid of a Hanukkah-themed refrigerator magnet set. http://bit.ly/8dgQdp #

• RT @techpresident WH betting on shared culture in its bid for more #opengov http://bit.ly/6GofMZ // Also, no #opengov plan for WH itself. #
• Via @danielschuman, @whitehouse lists 25 dep't "commitments" to open gov't: http://bit.ly/82Wr59 For ex., State to release Darfur data. #ogd #
• Paul Waldman and my giant head talk Europe and Obama-style politics in this first @theprospect video chat. http://bit.ly/698lw1 #

• I can't figure out how to hook up my old DVD player to my new TV, which clearly necessitates a new DVD. Tell me, is Blu-ray worth it? #
• RT @techpresident The Open Government Directive has dropped. Here's what's in it — and why it's a big deal. http://bit.ly/5Jh14k #
• FB commentary on #ogd launch: " Too bad that agency policy prohibits us federal employees from watching this…at work" http://bit.ly/8nnM9U #
• The enforcement mechanisms for the #ogd are similar to those OMB has used for years for big gov't IT projects, with more dashboards. #
• Quick take on the #ogd announcement: 11 pages of mostly general open gov't principles, with a handful of metrics and specific reqs. #
• Okay, folks. We're live blogging the Open Government Directive release over on@techpresident. Let's have some fun. http://bit.ly/5e8C5t #
• .@ParticipateDB Worth keeping in mind, tho, that participation 101 is having a functional web presence where folks can find what they need. #
• Also among the interesting bits of the #ogd release, how it handles policy challenges, e.g. FACA. And whether it sets up new incentives. #
• What I'm looking for from the Open Gov't Directive: beyond transparency, how it tackles (b) and (c) — participation and collaboration. #ogd #
• RT @Mlsif: at 11am EST, we'll be "Liveblogging the Open Government Directive's launch" at techPresident http://bit.ly/4r89nO #
• Writers Guild East unionizes an iPhone app's writers — http://bit.ly/6M0nwn @techpresident #
• Yep, we're going there. RT @techpresident Liveblogging the Open Government Directive's launch. http://bit.ly/4r89nO #ogd #opengov #
• The @whitehouse Open Government Directive drops tomorrow morning. http://bit.ly/5DKKEc That's what the kids say, right? Drops? #opengov #ogd #
• Amazed by these stats, because I know only one person who has one — 40% of iPhone OS devices sold are iPod Touches. http://bit.ly/6rIQp4 #
• You know what we need to pull together here in the NYC? Trivia night. #
• To get CAO's Twitter updates, House staffers need to register first — by phone. http://bit.ly/79HVLb #

• Protests and repression again in Iran? Did we turn our icons green for nothing? #
• Hey, @Afine! What did I do to you? ("please send me any names of women influencers… But not @p2173 @kanter @nten @nancyscola…") #
• Scola's words of wisdom: mentions of "guru," "rock star," or "genius" signal a good time to put your critical-thinking pants on. #
• The "you won't get that on FiOS" tag on (TimeWarner's) NY1 local station = a pretty good summary of what the bad new days could look like. #
• A neat look inside how "Fantastic Mr. Fox" was made, often from far away — http://bit.ly/6PxcUO #
• Brown's "smarter go'vt speech" reveals that NGOs in the U.S. are "quangos" in the U.K. Like a whole different country. http://bit.ly/7kNIpN #
• Life lesson: Generally, when you say "But we never even use a microwave!," you're lying to yourself. #movinglessons #
• Iran's perfecting the art of Internet throttling — slow enough to make it unusable, but w/o stigma of total shutdown. http://bit.ly/59ckz7 #

• Hey, if anyone finds my brown scarf during #org20 clean up, can you give it to @Elana_Brooklyn? Awesome, thanks. #
• Get your @AriMelber slides from our #org20 conversation this morning — http://bit.ly/4UXhZg (Enjoyed it too, Ari. Definitely talk soon.) #
• Heh. Had someone question what "parent-ready" apt meant in my last tweet. Not exciting as it sounds. We just haven't fully unpacked yet. #
• Alas, had to duck out of #org20 to get new place parent-ready for tomorrow. Y'all keep learning. #
• RT @HumanFolly: Neat. A majority of presenters @Organize20 are women. #org20 #

• "…than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." #org20 #
• Great S.J. Gould quote on the wall at #org20: "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain…" cont'd #
• Ha. Advice from online organizers at #org20: if your ED wants to write emails for your list, get her a @huffpo blogging account instead. #
• Just so you know, today's Organizing 2.0 conference in NYC is being tweeted with #org20. #

• Mobile videos in Arabic, Dari, Pashto — the sort of basic but creative work @whitehouse doesn't get much credit for. http://bit.ly/6iitUc #

• Really enjoyed the first half of this Obama fan fiction piece in @nymag — http://bit.ly/4LXsLX "The strain of it and the pleasure twinned." #
• For you morning folk and folks in later time zones, an interview with a "euro blogger" on pan-EU online politics — http://bit.ly/82KgR5 #
• A quick Twitter search assures me that I'm not the only one in NYC with no Time Warner cable this a.m. Thanks, group brain! #
• I'll admit that every time I hear John Mayer ask "who says I can't get stoned?," I think, "um, probably the relevant drug laws." #
• Interview w/ a guy at the center of the Euro blogging scene, on why there is no Euro blogging scene — http://bit.ly/8S3kIL (@techpresident) #

• RT @benpolitico Marriage goes down in NY, 38-24. Not even close. Dems not so good at counting votes. // aka why not to pin hopes on dopes. #
• Have I mentioned that I'm going to be a regular contributor on @theprospect's excellent TAPPED blog? Well, I am. http://bit.ly/7QReJI #