We are very excited to annouce today that we are expanding our Board of Directors and our Advisory Board, adding some extraordinary people -- Esther Dyson, Jimmy Wales, Charles Lewis, Yochai Benkler -- to an already distinguished group that includes Craig Newmark and Kim Malone. As Sunlight moves into our second year of operation we are pleased to be joined by some who are most on the cutting edge of technology and investigative journalism.
Esther Dyson (www.edventure.com) has been elected to serve a one-year term on the Board of Directors. Dyson is a leading expert on emerging digital technology and business models. She is the author of “Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age,” (1997) which explores the impact of information technology on people’s lives, and produced the Release 1.0 newsletter for more than 20 years. Currently, she is an active investor in start-ups around the world and blogs for Huffington Post as Release 0.9.
Continue readingNeeded: Citizen Journalists for Election Day!
Our Advisory Board member, Craig Newmark just told me that BBC Radio is looking for five citizen journalists to help tell the election night story from around the country. Here's an incredible opportunity!
BBC Radio Five Live's late night international news programme Up All Night would like your help telling the story of the US midterm elections. We'll be visiting Connecticut and Pennsylvania and on election night Washington DC - but we can't be everywhere and there many other fascinating races we'd like to cover. So we'd like your help in reporting the election.
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Craig’s (Check) List
One of the great delights of my west coast trip was meeting Craig Newmark, the genius behind Craig's List. Having been introduced to Craig's List by my daughters, and used it myself to rent an apartment and sell a car, it was a personal treat to meet this Internet celebrity.
He's been a huge fan of our Congresspedia. I took notes as he rattled off ways to expand it.
Continue readingSunlight Goes West
Mike Klein, Micah Sifry and I just returned from a few days in Seattle and San Francisco -- a trip well worth the range of discussions we had about Sunlight's goals and how to achieve them. We had simulating meetings with Martin Collier at the Glaser Progress Foundation and with Bill Gates, Sr. in Seattle. And our conversations in San Francisco were chocked full of advice out of the thinking of some of the great pioneers in the technology world, namely Mitch Kapor, Craig Newmark, David Sifry to name just a few. Chris Nolan hosted a terrific evening event for us.
The longest conversation of the trip that we had was with Mitch Kapor at his Open Source Applications Foundation. Before the meeting we knew we were pretty much on the same wave length on the issue of transparency because at a conference a few years ago, Mitch talked about the issue:
Continue readingComedy Comes to Congresspedia
Congresspedia now has links to the Colbert Report for each member interviewed in his "Better Know a District" series. You would never know that learning about your member of Congress could be so entertaining. Check it out, like Craig Newmark has, on the home page of Congresspedia.org.
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