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You love the senate, but blog prose can be so text-heavy. Well . . . now you can sign up for short daily updates on your cell phone.

Senate Mobile. Here's how:

1. Text the word Senate to 83043.

2. You'll receive a confirmation message.

3. You'll start receiving periodic (daily?) updates from the Senate.

4. You can get those updates immediately, anytime, by resending the word 'Senate' to 83043.

5. Media reps can text the word News to the same number (83043) to get breaking news and last-minute minutiae on media availability, press conferences, etc.

6. To opt out just text the word Stop to the same number.

Easy as pie,

thanks to revolutionaries Jeremy Po and Hugh Bryant Plautz at Vox Partners, Inc. who caught the vision and threw gasoline on the Government 2.0 fire.

Side Note: We're excited about Senate Mobile and planned to send a media notice early Friday afternoon, but then the phone rang a hundred times, Capitol renovation workers kept walking in and out getting everything ship shape, and a thousand miscellaneous tasks had to be checked off before session starts. And then there was the bubble wrap. We just didn't get it done. Best laid plans . . .

But Dave Fletcher noticed anyway.

So did Kirk Yuhnke.

Tyler Riggs broke the news in Cache Valley (he called while we were working on it), and the AP wired a tiny fraction of the story.

So maybe Friday wasn't a total loss. We'll send official notice on Monday, just as soon as the phone stops ringing.

Castner explains more on Radio Free Senate and YouTube.

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