I was in Nashville this past weekend giving a talk at the Ruby Hoedown, a completely free conference held for the South's Ruby developers. My talk was titled "Civic Hacking", and the slides are on Slideshare.
Continue readingIt’s Fedtastic!
If there were an Apps for America award category for best named application, I think we could all agree that Fedtastic would win. But it did bring home an honorable mention.
Lobbyist Thinks it’s “Wonderful” that People Read Bills Online
Yesterday on NPR, Ari Shapiro interviewed lobbyist Paul Lee about the enormous number of lobbyists lobbying on health care, the... View Article
Continue readingAfter massive US lobbying press, Turkey open to direct talks with Armenia
Key Democrat in Health Care Talks Receives Large Health Industry Contributions in 2009
As the summer of the Democrats’ discontent winds to a close, the head count for health care reform in the... View Article
Continue readingEric Explains: XML
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that we at Sunlight want as much government information online as possible. But... View Article
Continue readingRedesigning the FCC: Last Chance
Have 15 to 20 minutes to help us redesign the FCC's website? There are just a few days left to participate in our card sorting exercise. If you have the time today or tomorrow, visit http://websort.net/s/B74CAB/ to get started. I'll be gathering the results Friday morning and will then start on the design.
Thanks to all who have participated so far!
Get Started here: http://websort.net/s/B74CAB/
Continue readingEarthquake apps from Apps for America
The USGS represented a lot of data on Data.gov in the early days of the contest, supplying developers with data about earthquakes and other geological information. As a result, we saw quite a few applications about earthquakes and other natural disasters led by visualization award winner QuakeSpotter. But that wasn't the only one.
What’s Going on This Morning?
The above image is of the Connecticut legislature hard at work. I spot one game of free cell, one game... View Article
Continue readingSpendTrend.us shows an uptick in actual pork spending
That's what the Apps for America 2 honorable mention SpendTrend.us has to say at least. I like this entry a lot because it takes a complicated system like USASpending.gov and makes something really simple out of it. Where on USASpending.gov you have to navigate a giant search form SpendTrend.us gives us a simple search box.
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