More than 50 people braved the winter cold and dark to spend Friday night on the campus of Columbia University brainstorming for a bicoastal datafest that gets underway there and on the campus of Stanford University today.
Participants came from as nearby as down the hall -- some Columbia journalism students were in the room -- and as far away as London, home of Chris Taggart, who is here to show off and recruit assistance for is work at Open Corporates. Also mingling in the crowd, Sunlight Labs director Tom Lee, Jeremy Merrill of Pro Publica, Dante Chinni, founder of Patchwork Nation ...
Continue readingThe Post-Election Politwoops of 2012
'Tis the season to lick election-loss wounds by covering your tracks. Since the November elections, our Politwoops project has kept an eye on how members of Congress and candidates communicate with the public through Twitter.
Continue readingSitegeist: A Week After Launch
Exactly one week ago we launched Sitegeist, an app to learn more about your surroundings through visualizations of publicly available data. We are immensely proud of Sitegeist and thrilled by the response!
Continue readingTechnology and Hurricane Sandy Recovery
Last month’s “superstorm” Sandy caused devastation throughout much of the mid-Atlantic, with many residents still recovering from the powerful and destructive storm. One person affected by Sandy was Sunlight’s technology adviser Micah Sifry, who lives in New York. On the website TechPresident, he wrote about how New York public radio station WNYC initiated a crowdsourcing project to keep listeners informed in the hours, days and now weeks since the storm hit the city. Here at Sunlight, we decided to take a look at the innovations created by technologists and ordinary citizens to help residents affected by the storm. In Boston, CrisisCommons organized the Sandy CrisisCamp — a series of hackathons at MIT and around the world that brought together volunteers who could contribute to Sandy relief with communication technologies. You can read more about what the technologists did and the lessons learned at the remote hackathons here.
Continue readingPolitwoops Overhaul in Time for the Elections
Politwoops, Sunlight's project to track deleted tweets from U.S. politicians that was recently named one of TIME Magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2012, is getting a big refresh and expansion today.
Continue readingTIME Names Politwoops a ‘Best Website of 2012’
We are surprised and thrilled to see that TIME Magazine named the Sunlight Foundation's Politwoops project as one of their selections for the 50 Best Websites of 2012.
Continue readingFinally, comprehensive online television news archive by Internet Archive
Today, the folks at Internet Archive launched a robust online collection of more than 340,000 TV news programs from the... View Article
Continue readingCongrats to OpenGov Champs Homicide Watch DC on Meeting Kickstarter Goal
As the director of our ongoing mini-documentary series OpenGov Champions I am pleased to see that Homicide Watch DC, one... View Article
Continue readingFilming OpenGov Champions: Liz Barry
As Sunlight’s Video production Director it is my delight to be producing an ongoing video series called OpenGov Champions, featuring... View Article
Continue readingFilming OpenGov Champions: Waldo Jaquith
As a part of my job as Video Production Director here at Sunlight, I work on a short documentary video... View Article
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