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<p>Woah! There's an idea!<br /> <a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/02/17/democrats_push_voting_holiday.html">Democrats Push Voting Holiday</a> – <em>Sen. Hillary Clinton joined Sen. John Kerry "and other Democrats Thursday in urging that Election Day be made a federal holiday to encourage voting," the AP reports….</em> [<a href="http://politicalwire.com/">Teagan Goddard's Political Wire</a>]</p>

<p>Interesting and scary. The RNC "gets it" but unfortunately Zephr Teachout doesn't <a href="http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/342" title="http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/342">http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/342</a></p> <p>Distributed campaigning is obviously the wave of the future, Michael Turk takes aim at Zephr Teachout's call for "old-school" community building as an "end" in an of itself.<br /> <a href="http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/355">Counterpoint: The Citizen and His Browser, Volunteering Alone – by…

<p><a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/02/10/kerry_gives_to_dnc.html">Kerry Gives to DNC</a> – <em>Sen. John Kerry "gave $1 million in campaign funds" to the DNC's "grass-roots organizing campaign, and is asking his network of political supporters to build on his donation to help Democrats compete at the state and local levels," the Boston Globe reports. "Kerry is earmarking the money for grants…

<p>There is an interesting <a href="http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3623762" target="_blank">article in the Economist</a> about open-source as a movement and a model for the sharing of resources other than human technical skill in software development. The few that are raised are processing power, bandwith and hardrive storage space. What if these resources were used to make a distributed automated…

<p>This morning I recieved an email from <a href="http://www.democrats.com" target="_blank">democrats.com's</a> Bob Fertik, it was really an email from Andy Stern<br /> President of SEIU promoting their "army of guppies" campaign at <a href="http://walmart.purpleocean.org/answer/<br /> e577b36ae6211b0a8b74559a29b48a65" target="_blank">http://walmart.purpleocean.org</a></p> <p>I read both messages (they were pretty short and to the point) there were multiple links to take the…