Slate's Farhad Manjoo explores Barack Obama's transition from a hyper-networked candidate to a 21st century president from whom, now, much is expected; The Nation's Ari Melber keenly notes that a recent Washington Post story slipped in the unattributed bombshell that the Obama campaign's email list topped out at some 10 million members; The organization known as the Obama-Biden Transition Project (I just love that name -- so very '70s experimental band, no?) has brought on someone perhaps best known in these parts as a blogger, Open Left's Mike Lux; and a good deal more.

Barack Obama announces his decision to opt out of public financing in a video sent straight to supporters; McCain launches his first Facebook app: a video tour through the "Straight Talk Express" bus; a new Google maps gallery mashes up political data and geography; Capitol Words offers a daily extraction of Congress's most popular word; and more.