Sunlight Foundation

The Citizen's Briefing Book is an interesting little participatory function on change.gov, too. You can get a good read for what people are concerned about by looking at the number of ideas per category.

Just a simple little ditty thanks to IBM's ManyEyes.

So much happens with Transparency Technology these days, it's a good time to start a Weekly Lab Report. Here's what happened last week at Sunlight Labs.

Labs launches Application Programmers Incentive. WIN $15,000! WIN $15,000! Make something useful—or at least interesting—with APIs from Sunlight for our Apps for America contest we officially announced this week.

Clay comments old school at FEC (aka, testifies). Who said developers are anti-social? Head Labs geek Clay Johnson testifies before FEC commissioners. Read Sunlight's filed comments.

We could take some inspiration from this video of scientists pouring very liquid concrete into an ant hill in order to preserve its structure for study. What could we "pour" into the government in order to create a representation of the structure of bureaucracy and information flows inside?

Following up on yesterday's post where Opened up Change.gov I just took the titles of all the documents and ran them through Wordle, removing some of the blatantly noisy words (Recommendation, Transition, Policy). Here's what we got, which may be a pretty nice way of seeing what people "at the table" are talking about.

Here's the big version