Let's say President Barack Obama follows through on his promise to make government data more open, more standardized, and more transparent. How, then, do we keep track of all that freed information and the rich bounty of political reporting and commentary it will -- cross our fingers -- give rise to? Enter OpenCongress's new MyPoliticalNotebook, what is, to be reductive, basically a political-themed Delicious meets Google Notebook.

A new wiki documents the Clinton campaign's use of racialist attacks on Barack Obama; discovering some distressingly racist and homophobic content in Ron Paul's newsletters; OpenCongress launches MyOpenCongress; Why Tuesday talks to Lee Brenner of MySpace Impact; a video on Current calls out Mitt Romney about his dismissive approach to medical marijuana; and a request for a recall of New Hampshire primary votes is approved.

A new site from the Drum Major Institute, themiddleclass.org, bills itself as “Your toolkit for holding Congress accountable,” and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a site that so compellingly presents such essential information about new and pending legislation.