When Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert challenged his viewers to "Make McCain Exciting" he opened up a new fora for political commentary.

We've been pulling together some tips on "speed geeking" for a training Marty is doing in New Orleans this weekend. Speed geeking is a lot like speed dating, but the dates chew over technical or strategic challenges instead of life goals and turnon/offs.

Clay has been doing great work tracking a few of those cases that many of us interested in network-centric advocacy like to watch. We watch them because many people worry about the "staying power" of a network vs an institution. Many people think the organization is the only mechanism for fighting the long drawn out fight.

A few months ago I discovered Animoto.com and I've been hooked since!

Animoto is a web based application that creates a slideshow out of your images. But not just any slide show.

What animoto creates is a customized presentation of visuals and music. The images seem dance to the music!

If you tune in here often (the 86+ of you), you might find this job really fun and interesting.

Check out the American University Center for Social Media's June 17 "Beyond Broadcast" event, and ePhilanthropy Foundation's June 14 Nonprofit Social Networking Symposium. Details: