“[M]any honest people will cheat” was the conclusion Duke behavioral economics professor Dan Ariely reached based upon experiments he designed... View Article
Continue readingWhere is Obama on Bush’s Earmark Transparency Executive Order
Since the current leadership “ban” on earmarks went into effect at the beginning of this Congress, there has been an... View Article
Continue readingSunrise (3/7/11)
GREEN-ENERGY LOBBY —Washington Examiner: “K Street is the epicenter of this green-industrial complex, and ground zero might be the firm... View Article
Continue readingInvestigative Reporting Workshop Launches ‘Exemption 10’ Blog
American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop began a new blog yesterday entitled ‘Exemption 10‘ in reference to the unwritten tenth exemption... View Article
Continue readingdjango-mediasync 2.1 for Django 1.3
Earlier today we released django-mediasync 2.1 in anticipation of Django's upcoming 1.3 release. The Django 1.3 RC was released last night so the final version should be coming any day now. This release changes the way static files are handled and breaks previous versions of mediasync. The old MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT settings are now meant to handle media uploaded by users while two new settings, STATIC_URL and STATIC_ROOT, handle static site content.
Mediasync will first try to use STATIC_ settings and fall back to MEDIA_ if not found. This ensures that mediasync will work regardless of the version of Django being used.
Find the package on PyPI and the source on GitHub. And as always, if you use mediasync please indicate it on Django Packages.
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Double standards in transparency
When lawmakers introduce legislation that is supposed to increase transparency, naturally we expect that they will lead in the everything... View Article
Continue readingThe Monitor Group, Libya, And Positive Media Mentions
The Monitor Group/Libya controversy continues today with an article in the Boston Globe. The article quotes Libya scholar Dick Vandewalle... View Article
Continue readingSunlight and Open Government on TWiT
Those of us who grew up watching ZDTV (later called TechTV) have fond memories of Leo Laporte. In recent years, Leo has been building a podcast empire called TWiT. Jeremy and I were on the TWiT Network's FLOSS Weekly show to discuss open government in the context of free, libre, and open source software. Give it a listen, or watch the video.
While we're on the subject, there have been a few other tech podcasts where Sunlight has made an appearance:
Continue readingGeithner meets with Obama campaign fundraiser
Penny Pritzker, who served as President Obama’s finance chair during his 2008 campaign and whose name was mentioned as a possible U.S. Commerce Secretary, met with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and several other top government heavyweights to discuss Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), according to meeting logs released by the agency this week.
In 2008, Pritzker who has a stake in several real estate and hotel businesses across the country, came under scrutiny for her role in a failed bank that made subprime loans in the leadup to the financial crisis. Pritzker said at the time that the bank ...
Continue readingCivic Hacking at Slashroots
Last weekend, I spoke at the Slashroots conference, held at the University of the West Indies Mona School of Business.... View Article
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