Aspiring RNC Chairmen Wonder: What Would Reagan Do?, Washington Post.

The hypocrisy, more than anything else, has killed our party," agreed Saul Anuzis chairman of the Michigan Republicans. "We had become the bums."

Comcast starts new year with new network management system, Ars Technica.

Comcast says that, as ofDecember 31, it has turned over a new leaf, network management practices-wise. The new-and-hopefully-improved "protocol agnostic" system the company unveiled to the Federal Communications Commission in September is now in effect.

RNC Chair: Iraq conduct Bush’s biggest failure, Politico.

“I think we failed in the way that, originally, we were prosecuting the war," Duncan said at a debate with five rivals for the chairmanship. The candidates were asked by Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist to name Bush's "biggest mistake."

Cherple Links Instant Messaging With SMS, TechCrunch.

Cherple , a new service from San Diego based Glogaltel Media, wants to connect the world’s 1.5 billion Internet users to the 3.3 billion wireless devices via an instant message-to-SMS platform.

21 Excellent Web Apps for College Students, Dumb Little Man.

The following list includes 21 great tools/sites for school and college students. The tools are completely web based and almost all of them are free to use.

Internet Providers Move to Shape Broadband Push, Wall Street Journal.

Lawmakers in Congress want a plan that will create jobs over the next two to three years while also tackling the longer-term goal of improving the availability and quality of high-speed Web access in the U.S. The U.S. has slipped to 15th from fourth place since 2001 in broadband penetration, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The iPhones Golden Touch, Washington Post.

Ge Wang never dreamed of becoming a high-tech Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He's an assistant professor at Stanford, a specialist in computer science and music whose biggest passion has been organizing nerdy "laptop orchestras" composed of 20 people each "playing" a notebook computer.

What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting, New York Times. 

Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, wanted to look behind the curtain. He was curious about the doubling of prices for text messages charged by the major American carriers from 2005 to 2008, during a time when the
industry consolidated from six major companies to four.

Bloggers Lose The Plot Over Twitter Search, TechCrunch.

Wow. Loic Le Meur asks for a simple feature on Twitter search - the ability to filter results by the number of followers that a user has to make sense of thousands of messages - and the blogosphere calls for his head.

MySpace v. Facebook Advertising Showdown. Which Platform Is Better?, TechCrunch.

The guest post below is written by Ryan Hupfer at HubPages. A couple of weeks ago HubPages ads were blocked from MySpace’s new self serve ad platform, MyAds, as being competitive to MySpace. That problem was fixed, but we asked Ryan, who advertises on both MySpace and Facebook, to write a guest post comparing the two platforms.

iPhone app navigates Obama inauguration, CNET News.

The free 2009 Presidential Inauguration Guide landing screen features an inauguration countdown, as well as the distance the user is from the steps of the Capitol building, where the event takes place.

Newspaper Shuns Web, and Thrives, New York Times.

And Mr. Jacobson is more than happy to be known as the Fred Flintstone of the publishing world. “There may come a time when the Web is all there is, and we will try to adapt,” he said, “and if we don’t, well, hey, we had a great run. But right now, the Web makes no business sense for us.”

Confirmed: Fred getting his own radio show, Hot Air.

Free advice for Westwood, though: Make each and every show freely downloadable online, because he’s not going to build an audience easily head to head with Rush. Exit question: Isn’t he going back to acting too?

FCC Head Cancels Vote on Free Internet Plan, Wall Street Journal.

Sen. John Rockefeller, (D-W.Va.), and Rep. Henry Waxman, (D-Calif.), who will chair the Senate and House committees overseeing the FCC next year, earlier Friday sent a letter to Mr. Martin asking him to cease actions on controversial policy proposals.

Is There Anything Twitter Can't Do?, Information Week.

Computer manufacturer Dell (Dell) has apparently used Twitter to capture a whopping $1 million in revenue. We don't know if this is incremental revenue, but Twitter can make big bucks for your business! We even have blog publishers turning into book authors to chronicle how awesome Twitter is for business!

Kotecki Leaves Politico, FishbowlDC.

Videographer (and funny guy) James Kotecki is leaving the Politico for non-journalism endeavors, a tipster tells FishbowlDC.
>UPDATE: Mike Allen notes that he's going to the Cypress Group.

Tweetminster and Tweet Congress - Where Twitter and Politics Meet, Mashable.

Tweetminster is one of those services which clearly shows why Twitter’s simplicity and versatility makes it the swiss knife of communication platforms. While the service itself might not be interesting to you if you’re not closely following British politics, the idea and the implementation are great.

Americans for Tax Reform Presents: The RNC Chairman's Candidate Debate.

After registering and logging in, you will be able to submit questions and vote on questions that will be asked at the RNC Chairman Candidate’s Debate on January 5, 2009 at 1 PM, live from the National Press Club. You will also be able to watch the debate live right here as well!