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From Michael Gerson's op-ed in today's Washington Post:

One Pentagon source (who didn't want to be identified for fear of sounding like a suck-up) calls [Defense Secretary Robert] Gates "extraordinarily quick and extraordinarily even" and praises his "sense of humor and candor behind closed doors."

Diane Lim Rogers -- formerly of the House Budget Committee, now Chief Economist for the Concord Coalition -- has just launched EconomistMom.com. The site officially debuts (fittingly) on Mother's Day, with an op-ed that's running in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

At long last, my review of Tarleton Gillespie's book on copyright in the digital era -- Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture -- is done and published in the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. (Just to be clear, though: The 9-month lag time was due almost entirely to my procrastination, not to RCCR or my editor, David Silver.)

I'll post the review to the articles archive soon, but for now you can find it here -- and see Gillespie's response here.

News item, courtesy of NYTimes.com:

The Isiah Thomas era officially ended Friday, and a major Knicks rebuilding project is now underway. Donnie Walsh, who two weeks ago replaced Thomas as the team president, removed Thomas as head coach, but said he will remain with the team, but will have no title and no direct reports.

I know he's under contract and all, but man -- wonder if Isiah gets to keep his stapler...

In my day job, I run all things online for the New America Foundation, and we're in the process of ramping up our new media efforts. Doing that, of course, requires good people, so we're in the market for a Managing Editor for NewAmerica.net.

If you're interested, or know of a good candidate, please let me know!

From l'Observatoire des Médias (via the Online Journalism Blog):

CapitalGainsandGames.com -- a site that Stan Collender & I launched late last year -- is now an honest-to-gosh powerhouse in the world of policy blogs.

Stan has been been joined by Andrew Samwick and Pete Davis; the new-and-improved site debuted this evening.

I'm at a New America event on Microplace -- an eBay-backed venture that facilitates microloans -- which we're webcasting live -- go to http://www.newamerica.net/events/2008/can_online_investing_end_poverty.

Cool stuff -- both New America's experiments with live-streaming and using chat for remote questions, and the social change that's being attempted by Microplace and others. To learn more about these policy ideas, go to GlobalAssetsProject.org

A belated reminder for a panel discussion I'm moderating tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 26) at Google's DC offices.

A quick summary and list of the panelists follows. It looks to be a full house, but last-minute attendees are welcome.

Much like their mass-market cousins, publishers that target DC decision-makers are scrambling to adapt to a rapidly changing digital landscape - trying to capitalize on "web 2.0" trends while also protecting their existing reader bases and business models.