Check out these two new Al Gore sites, which have just been added to the sidebar.

First up, Bloggers for Gore now has a website! There isn't much there now, but check back in a few days and join the Bloggers for Gore Google Group!

Second we have GoreHub, a feature rich site that has feeds and links galore. The video feed is especially good, and something which I hope to aggregate here soon, but the entire site is a one-stop shop for all the Al Gore information you need!

Gorehub was already featured on Personal Democracy Forum's techPresident i a post by PDF founder Micah Sifry today. The post also takes a look at an a cover article from Fast Company Magazine titled Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover. Micah reads the article, and comes to the conclusion that Gore isn't likely to run, but when I read these two paragraphs all I could think was How could he not run?!?!:

Funny guy, indeed. In one well-delivered anecdote, Gore manages to make fun of himself, the election, his relationship with his former boss, the Bush administration, and the media--and still come out on top. Gone is the robo-candidate who provided fodder for conservative bile and late-night merrymaking. (For a good time, google "SNL" and "lockbox.") After the 2000 election, Gore might have slunk away to a loser's life: a memoir here, a visiting professorship there, the occasional keynote speech or celebrity golf tournament. Instead, in what may be the greatest brand makeover in history, Gore is being hailed as a visionary who was right about everything from global warming to Iraq. At 59, he's an Academy Award winner, a bestselling author, a front-runner for the Nobel Prize, and a concert promoter who turned out to be a bigger rock star at this year's Grammys than the rock stars themselves.

What no one is talking about is that he has also become a stunningly successful businessman--and that has fueled his comeback. Since his nonelection, Gore has become a millionaire many times over, bringing him, in financial terms, shoulder to shoulder with the C-suite denizens he used to hit up for campaign cash. In addition to the steady flow of six-figure speaking gigs, he has become an insider at two of the hottest companies on the planet: at Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), where he signed on as an adviser in 2001, pre-IPO (and received stock options now reportedly worth north of $30 million), and at Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), where he joined the board in 2003 (and got stock options now valued at about $6 million). He enjoyed a big payday as vice chairman of an investment firm in L.A., and, more recently, started a cable-television company and an asset-management firm, both of which are becoming quiet forces in their fields.