Top Story: Lobbying is making Tax Day in the United States much more complicated than it has to be. Sunlight... View Article
Continue readingDOT and Data.gov: Nice Job Being Responsive
I am so pleased to see the Department of Transportation and Data.gov being so incredibly responsive to the concerns we... View Article
Continue readingThe Case of the Missing DOT Data… Solved?
Yesterday I wrote about my investigation into whether the Department of Transportation had put their data on Data.gov as promised months... View Article
Continue readingThe Case of the Missing DOT Data
The Department of Transportation has been a leader in complying with recentopen government initiatives, so I decided to use the agency... View Article
Continue readingDraft H. Appropriations Bill Would Slightly Increase E-Gov Fund
House Appropriators released draft legislation [PDF] on Wednesday that appears to increase funding levels for the Electronic Government Fund, the... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up
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Continue readingE-Gov Measure in Committee Hearing Today
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs (HSGAC) is holding a committee hearing at 2:30 pm today to... View Article
Continue readingGovernment Adapts to Web 2.0
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Continue readingVideo: Mobile Design and Access
The following video is a TED talk by Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase, whose blog I read regularly. He discusses mobile phone research and design in a broader context of international culture. While he doesn't explicitly discuss politics, the ideas he introduces about the rapid evolution in the ways in which we experience technology have big implications for the ways in which we'll experience information and government.
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