Obama’s Stimulus Lobbying Rules: The Movie
With all of the discussion about President Obama’s new rules on stimulus lobbying, I have put together a short video... View Article
Continue readingConnecting Links: Criticism of Obama’s Stimulus Lobbying Rules
The criticism of President Obama’s lobbying rules continues as more lobbying and industry groups — surprise, surprise, lobbyists don’t like... View Article
Continue readingPost RailsConf
Open government got a great spotlight at RailsConf this year, in Las Vegas. Dan Lathrop organized a panel on Government 2.0 there, and was kind enough to ask me to speak about Sunlight, and Wynn Netherland about his great work on TweetCongress. We had good turnout, and got plenty of questions. We even had a guy spontaneously write an IP address of an anonymous FTP server on a piece of paper, approach the podium to hand it to me, and promise us that there was raw legislative data on the other end.
Continue readingThe Lobbying Power of the Groups at the Presidential Health Care Pow-Wow
Today, President Obama held a public event with a number of leading health industry trade associations that have previously been... View Article
Continue readingMapping the Bailout
Figuring out where money from the financial bailout is landing has been a source of great debate over the last... View Article
Continue readingWomen Who Tech
Tomorrow (Tuesday), the second annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit is being held via phone and the Web. Hundreds of women... View Article
Continue readingWhat do people want from Recovery.gov?
We scraped all the ideas off of the latest National Dialogue on Recovery.gov to see of we could condense what most of the ideas were about. Here's what we got:
Looks like most of the ideas were about data. People sure do want to set that data free, don't they?
Word Cloud of the National Dialogue
Over in the Labs, we scraped all the ideas off of the latest National Dialogue on Recovery.gov to see of... View Article
Continue readingShould lobbyists be required to disclose anything?
That seems to be a question raised from The Next Right‘s Soren Dayton. Dayton is taking the position that lobbyists... View Article
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