Tag Archive: Google

Tools for Transparency: Push Your Content to Google Currents

by Scott Stadum Dec 9, 2011 4:29 pm

Mobile access to Sunlight content — across our main site and many of our projects — has grown exponentially year-on-year... View Article

Legacy media bankrolling campaigns of SOPA cosponsors

by Reporting Group

investigations

Dec 1, 2011 12:13 pm

Traditional big media firms have contributed more than $5 million to the sponsors of the Stop Online Piracy Act, with California Democratic Reps. Howard Berman and Adam Schiff as the top recipients.

The bill, known as SOPA, would strengthen and extend the penalties for online copyright violations, and could force websites hosting pirated content to come down or prevent search engines from sending users their way. Legacy media companies stand to benefit if there's less unlawful movement of their content on the web, like pirated movies and songs for download.

Some of the nation's top tech companies — Facebook ...

Tools for Transparency: 10 Tools You Might Have Missed

by Scott Stadum Nov 17, 2011 2:40 pm

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a round-up of the latest Tools for Transparency posts. Take a look at... View Article

Tools for Transparency: Google+ Pages

by Scott Stadum Nov 10, 2011 3:44 pm

Though Google+ launched this past June, they only just this week launched Google+ Pages for groups, nonprofits and businesses. You... View Article

Tools for Transparency: Use Topsy to Track Your Content

by Scott Stadum Oct 14, 2011 12:44 pm

Topsy is a real-time search engine that pulls links from Twitter and Google+ to help you gauge popular content and... View Article

Tools for Transparency: Use A Cell Phone to Collect Campaign Signatures

by Scott Stadum Oct 6, 2011 4:46 pm

While helping out on a recent campaign, I was handed a clipboard to gather sign-ins for an event. Little did... View Article

Googling the audience

by Joshua Hatch

investigations

Sep 22, 2011 3:17 pm

Yesterday, senators quizzed Google's former CEO and current board of directors president Eric Schmidt about the company's size, practices, and potential for anti-competitive behavior. Concerned that the government might try to flex its muscle against the search and mobile giant, Schmidt assured the senators that Google was no Microsoft, and that 2011 was no 1995.

The hearing, titled "The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?" provides some insights into the concerns of some members of the the subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. Others with those concerns filled the hearing room. We'd like ...