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Aside from McCain choosing Sarah Pailin as his running mate, probably the single thing that has made me so excited about Barack Obama (and holy shit am I excited) is the plan he lays out in his “Blueprint for Change” on using the internet for greater transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement.

In that spirit here’s a great article from Popular Science on how the next president can harness the largely untapped power of the internet for the ends of a greater and more properly compelled and informed democracy. The article arguably reaches it’s apex in it’s citing of George Mason University research fellow Jerry Brito and his paper on converting all government documents to XML format for greater extensibility and usability. Enjoy.

While doing a little research for a painting I was working on I came across this little gem from a 1937 Science Magazine.