Democracy Player looks pretty slick. My understanding is that it is built on a VLC backend? And it adds bittorrent, but I already have a bittorrent client... Anybody wanna give a quick rundown of how this compares to VLC?

Basically it offers a more integrated experience, including an iTunes-style library of your videos.

I have to say, I really like it -- the concept and the design -- but don't actually use it much. The Participatory Culture crew imagined an ecosystem of video channels based on this model -- high-quality files via RSS and BitTorrent -- that just hasn't really materialized. (Yet?)

OpenCongress looks pretty nice. I've waded through the Thomas reports on some bills and it is tricky to navigate, although I wouldn't say prohibitively so. They should really try to hook up with Metavid and get the video feeds and closed caption transcripts tied in. Sadly, Metavid searches are still deeply unsatisfying; I wonder what the hold up is.