We’re delighted to invite you to participate in LittleSis, a wiki its creators, Public Accountability Initiative, appropriately describe asĀ “an... View Article
Continue readingOpening Your Seat at the Table
After my post yesterday about Change.gov's Your Seat at the Table feature, it got us thinking: what if this website disappears on January 21st? What if all this data goes away?
I posted (half seriously) on our Yammer account about 3 hours ago "Big gold star to anyone who can scrape and capture every 'your seat at the table' document in a Sunlight repository. I'm getting nervous that change.gov is going to disappear in a week."
James and Jeremy independently took up the challenge. And now, three hours later we have our repository. We thought we'd share the code for you to do it too if you'd like, and also this handy csv file of all of the documents.
Continue readingPlanet Open
The ever-amazing Josh Tauberer , creator and custodian of Govtrack.us , never runs out of really good stuff to do... View Article
Continue readingTechnology Isn’t Ancillary or Extraneous
Jimmy Wales ,Wikipedia founder and Sunlight advisor, and Andrea Weckerle, attorney, communications consultant and blogger, wrote an interesting column last... View Article
Continue readingStatement: Sen. Levin will Release TARP Contracts
I just received a one line statement from Tara Andringa, press officer for Sen. Carl Levin, on the will he... View Article
Continue readingAmazing Web Stats
I’m a data freak. I admit it. But I love these numbers because of what they tell us about the... View Article
Continue readingLevin: “My Instinct Would Be To Release Them”
TPM Muckraker’s Zachary Roth provides an update to Bill Allison’s post on Sen. Carl Levin’s refusal to release bailout contracts... View Article
Continue readingSen. Levin: Transparency for me, not for thee
Sen. Carl Levin, angered by the lack of transparency in the Troubled Assets Relief Program, vowed to subpoena the Treasury... View Article
Continue readingPeek at Transparency Related Legislation
One week into the 111th Congress and lawmakers have already introduced hundreds of bills. Of those few hundred bills some... View Article
Continue readingCREW Examines the Revolving Door
Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) released Revolving Door, the results of their six-month investigation into... View Article
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