The launch of the new WhiteHouse.gov web site created a flood of blog posts that simply sought to say, “cool.”... View Article
Continue readingNo New TARP Accountability Requirements
Yesterday, I looked at an amendment to the 2nd round of TARP (read: bailout) funds from Tim Walz that sought... View Article
Continue readingExecutive Branch Agencies and Web 2.0
As the tech community gears up for the, whenever it’s going to be, announcement of the first Chief Technology Officer... View Article
Continue readingPromises, Promises, Promises
ProPublica has a cool new feature tracking promises made by politicians and political and governmental entities. For years, I have... View Article
Continue readingNo E-Filing Fix in the Senate, Yet
National Journal’s Eliza Krigman reminds us all of the United States Senate’s failure to catch up with modern times and... View Article
Continue readingGood TARP Transparency Amendment
Rep. Tim Walz introduced an amendment to the second round of TARP – the economic recovery funds aka the bailout... View Article
Continue readingLevin: “My Instinct Would Be To Release Them”
TPM Muckraker’s Zachary Roth provides an update to Bill Allison’s post on Sen. Carl Levin’s refusal to release bailout contracts... View Article
Continue readingPeek at Transparency Related Legislation
One week into the 111th Congress and lawmakers have already introduced hundreds of bills. Of those few hundred bills some... View Article
Continue readingYouTube Congress Channel Launches
Today, YouTube announced the creation of two channels made specifically to accomodate videos posted by congressional lawmakers. The channels have... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Labs on NYT API
In Ellen Miller’s post yesterday regarding the release of numerous API’s in one day, concerns were mentioned in respect to... View Article
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