Here is Friday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News... View Article
Continue readingSpeaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor on Legislative Data Release
Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor today sent a letter to the Clerk of the House calling for better access... View Article
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NEW DEM SUPER PAC —Politico: “Democrats with ties to the Obama White House on Friday are launching a two-pronged fundraising... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Leveraging Game Mechanics with DailyFeats
DailyFeats takes the idea of “checking in” and turns it into a vehicle for accomplishing good deeds. Leveraging game mechanics... View Article
Continue readingFinance PACs Fill Financial Services Committee Freshmen Coffers
On March 16, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets & Government Sponsored Enterprises held a hearing to discuss... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 4/28/2011
Here is Thursday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News... View Article
Continue readingPrincess and the policy
There is a special role for princesses in international diplomacy and some like Princess Diana and Queen Noor of Jordan captivated the imagination of the world with their charm and humanitarian work, but others play a more formal diplomatic and public relations role and appear in foreign lobbying records.
Princess of Qatar, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, hired Fenton Communications in September of 2009 to assist her with a website and media outreach promoting her public education campaign, Foreign Agents Registration Act filings show. The contract with Fenton was terminated but the website is still up and running, describing her ...
Continue readingSuccess Has Many Parents, Colleagues and Friends – Thank You!
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the Sunlight Foundation. It is exciting to reflect on how far we’ve come,... View Article
Continue readingSunrise (4/28/11)
GIVE US TAX CUT, WE GIVE YOU REVENUE —WaPo: “As Washington politicians grapple with how to lower the federal deficit,... View Article
Continue readingStream Congress Case Study on HTML5Rocks.com
I wrote a detailed case study of what went into building Stream Congress. It's up on Google's HTML5 Rocks, an excellent resource for building cutting-edge web apps.
In particular, I cover how to get WebSockets and EventSource up and running, on both the server and the browser.
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