Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. I use this series... View Article
Continue readingRead the Bill: What’s Been Rushed So Far in 2009?
Every year there are a bunch of bills that wind up getting pushed through Congress with little time for both... View Article
Continue readingWE are going to bid on Recovery.gov
We've decided to do something crazy. On Tuesday afternoon, someone handed us a copy of the Recovery.gov 2.0 RFP and we thought: what if we try something truly radical here. What if we opened up the process of government contracting by bidding on this thing? We together-- not just we meaning The Sunlight Foundation-- are going to bid on redoing Recovery.gov to learn more about the process of government contracting, and to try and build what is perhaps the biggest federal transparency-related website.
Continue readingHelp Sunlight Bid on Recovery.gov
You’re going to want to go over to the Sunlight Labs blog for this one. Labs Director Clay Johnson announced... View Article
Continue readingBroadband and Civic Participation
As part of the economic stimulus package passed in February, Congress gave the Commerce Department up to $7.2 billion to... View Article
Continue readingLunch Time Link Round-Up
Local county commissioners in the district of Indiana Rep. Mike Pence passed a resolution requesting that the congressman end his... View Article
Continue readingThe Future of Email Marketing? Twitter.
Gross over-simplification: In the realm of non-profits and campaigns, the world revolves around one thing: email marketing. It isn't blogging, it isn't "my.barackobama.com" or anything of the like-- basically, what people do as "campaign strategists" in the online world is come up with new and elaborate ways to ask you for your email address so that they can do one thing: ask you for money.
Email marketeers measure the effectiveness of this by tracking four key statistics:
Continue readingObama Blocks Visitor Log Disclosure
This is pretty disheartening. The Obama administration is continuing to use the same arguments the Bush administration used to block... View Article
Continue readingCapitolCamp
At the beginning of this year, the New York State Senate brought in Andrew Hoppin as their CIO with a mandate to revolutionize the way the NY Senate engaged people. The NY Senate's new website is the first major tangible product of Andrew's new and talented team. On June 5th, I attended another result of this newfound momentum in New York's government, CapitolCamp. A one-day BarCamp-style conference, CapitolCamp was in Albany, at the New York State Capitol, hosted by the New York State Senate, CIO, and the New York State CIO.
Continue readingCorpWatch’s New CrocTail and API
I’ve been out of Washington this week as you might have gathered from by tweeting but I did want to... View Article
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