Sunlight Labs contributor "wubbahead" comes up with an ingenious and automated way to find out whether or not your representative has an RSS feed by using the Sunlight Labs API the Google AJAX Feed API and some JavaScript. Make sure to check it out
Continue readingLearning Lessons
Earlier today, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer stated that, prior to consideration, the economic stimulus bill would be made available online... View Article
Continue readingWilliam Lynn and New Lobbying Restrictions
The new Executive Order on ethics and lobbying issued by President Obama has caused some problems for the nomination of... View Article
Continue readingExecutive Orders and Whitehouse.gov
The launch of the new WhiteHouse.gov web site created a flood of blog posts that simply sought to say, “cool.”... View Article
Continue readingMemorandum on Transparency
President Obama’s Memorandum on Transparency (still not published at WhiteHouse.gov) is just too important not to post in its entirety. ... View Article
Continue readingMemorandum on FOIA
Since the Memorandum on FOIA and Government Transparency are not yet posted at WhiteHouse.gov, I thought I would post them... View Article
Continue readingPresident Obama’s Day Two Promise to Increase Transparency
On Day Two, President Obama issued new Executive Orders and memoranda — including an Executive Order on Ethics Commitments by... View Article
Continue readingPresident Obama Issues New Transparency Policies
(adapted from an Open House Project Google Group message) President Obama has stepped to the plate today, and addressed many... View Article
Continue readingWhat we’re doing with the stimulus bill
Short answer: we're trying to do some interesting things with it and we may need your help. Originally, we thought "hey, let's put this into Public Markup" but unfortunately the bill's complexity actually was incompatible with Public Markup's data model. At the end of the day, the relevant parts of the bill wouldn't have fit into the commenting/displaying architecture we've used for bills in the past.
Continue readingCTO or GTO?
Thad Anderson, a Washington, D.C., -based attorney and blogger, has thought a lot about government transparency and freedom of information.... View Article
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