So here's your link of the week, as I'll keep plugging this as the days go by. My first cover story is out, and it focuses on the resurrection of Al Gore, both as a candidate for 2008, and as a disintermediated, new media figure. My argument is a bit odd: that Gore's post-non-presidency has really been marked by search for communicative technologies that would allow him, and others, to marginalize the "mainstream media" as gatekeepers and filters for political communication. I think it's interesting stuff. And you should read it. And, if you have a blog, link to it, so I look good.