• Alexandra Rampy has compiled a list of the civil service and political representatives in the United States who are fooling around on twitter - including a number of NASA missions. Now that’s a logical use of this kind of messaging system - give your fans a way to track what is happening with a specific mission. That way, the Hubble fanatics don’t have to mix with the Mars obsessives!
• Brian Giesen, from Ogilvy PR, has a similar list of US government bloggers. He also attempt to classify the various types of bloggers, dividing them into:

1. THE “OFFICIAL” BLOG
2. GROUP BLOGS
3. PUBLIC CAMPAIGN BLOGS
4. PERIODIC BLOGS
5. THIRD PARTY BLOGS

• The numbers are growing for the Ottawa Government barcamp idea. Quite literally, people are jumping out of the woodwork. More info at barcampOttawaGov.