Like many other Members, I have a blog, use YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Digg, and other new media to communicate with constituents, and I believe they are vital tools toward increasing transparency and accountability. 
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Selected and fresh photos from around the web.
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Editor's pick
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BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.
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Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
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A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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In this Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008 file photo Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, speaks with Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II in Moscow, Russia. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II, who presided over a vast post-Soviet revival of faith but was criticized for bullying other denominations and making the church a force for nationalism, died Friday, Dec. 5,2008, at age 79.
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Czech Republic's President Vaclav Klaus (L) welcomes European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pottering at Prague Castle in Prague December 5, 2008.
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NEW YORK - DECEMBER 04: Actor Harold Pirraneau attends the 2008 Stockings with Care celebrity bartending night at Bar 13 on December 4, 2008 in New York City.
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A memorial tribute to shoe mogul Thomas Bata is shown at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto September 3, 2008. Bata died earlier this week at the age of 93.
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A visitor takes a close look at a photo by French photographer Bettina Rheims during the inauguration of her exhibition "Can You Find Happiness?" on March 7, 2008 at the c/o-Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition runs from March 8 to May 11, 2008.
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Forty-five euro coins, worth 500 Slovak Crowns or 16,60 euros, are seen in Bratislava where Slovakian banks and post offices started selling them on December 1,2008 before Slovakia joins the euro zone on January 1, 2009.
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People walk behind the European Union's flag during the annual gay parade in Budapest July 5, 2008. Several hundreds of demonstrators clashed with the police in the center of Hungarian capital as police tried to separate them from the participants of the Gay Pride march.
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Quotes about Digg
If you are not using Twitter, Digg or blogging, it is about time you got started.
was said
in VNUNet.com
The game spread to many blogs, and social bookmarking sites have been spreading the word like wild-fire. Sites like VGCats, Digg, MetaFilter, Reddit, Koreus, StumbleUpon, and many other sites have driven this massive amount of traffic our way ... According to Alexa, we were ranked 15,235 in traffic yesterday.
said William Stallwood
in Ars Technica
There are Digg clones around the world in every country ... I could go into those markets and clean up those sites. If I needed more capital to do a deal, I could probably do it.
said Jay Adelson
both technologically and socially. I remember when I first heard of this project. I believe it was from a digg article declaring the project over. Ha! This project had been declared dead more times than Duncan McCloud. What we have now is on such a different level that what was around during the core1 days
was said
in Crunch Gear
After I did post the correct information to Twitter, I saw so many postings at Digg and in blogs where people said 'the Mars Phoenix has told us that this story is wrong,' ... It just showed me that people did trust what we were saying there. And that's a big message that I'm taking back to NASA headquarters.
said McGregor
in Ars Technica
Quotes from articles mentioning Digg
What hits me about Kevin is that when he left his show, he didn't find a job at another network; he created a network.
was said
in FOX Business
You know, I've actually thought about that a lot, and it's a valid question ... But you want to get those questions out of the way as fast as possible, because it's such boring stuff. You've got to be entertaining; otherwise, someone hits the button and changes the channel.
said Kevin Rose
in FOX Business
