I’d be remiss to not comment on Google+ after last week’s successful beta launch. I was lucky enough to get... View Article
Continue readingInfluence Explored: Corporations lobby for tax breaks
An article on the front page of the New York Times yesterday reported on the pressure some major corporations—such as Microsoft—... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Me on the Web
Searching for your own name is often considered an exercise in vanity, but knowing what’s being said about you and... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: 15 Tools You Might Have Missed
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a round-up of the latest Tools for Transparency posts. Playing a bit of... View Article
Continue readingSunlight at Google I/O
I spent most of this week in San Francisco for Google I/O. While Google I/O doesn't have a whole lot to do with open government, we do enough Android development in the service of open government that it seemed worth my attendance.
In the end, Google I/O was a mixed bag, offering nice goodies and announcements, but at the cost of tightly crowded sessions and what felt like an embarrassment of riches.
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Google Reader is Still Relevant, Part II
In last week’s Tools for Transparency post I broke down how I use Google Reader to stay on top of... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Google Reader is Still Relevant, Part I
RSS is dead! Long live RSS! Maybe I’m old school in the social media/tech/web x.0 space — I did graduate... View Article
Continue readingTech Companies Lead Lobbying Push For Tax Holiday
On Sunday CBS’ 60 Minutes ran an expose on new corporate tax havens. Leslie Stahl, reporting the story, interviewed Cisco... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency – Build a Transparency Search Engine
Google Custom Search is a simple service that lets you create your own search engine based on links that you... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: 12 Resources You Might Have Missed
Since I started the Tools for Transparency post back in July, I’ve written about quite a few social media resources... View Article
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