Journalists often face a problem we at Sunlight run into — dealing with huge piles of government documents sadly trapped... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Greplin
The concept behind Greplin is pretty simple – they index the various services you use across the cloud, like Gmail,... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: If This Then That
ifttt.com is an innovative web service that helps you automate web-based tasks based on certain ‘triggers.’ From TheNextWeb.com: Have you... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Social media alerts
Over a year ago we got the idea to internally send social media alerts for important Sunlight news and project... View Article
Continue reading100 Senators Iconized and Explored
Andy Rash of iotacons crafted these amazing 8-bit versions of your elected senator, well done. I’ve also gone ahead and... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Google+
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 readingTools for Transparency: Make Images Social with Thinglink
Thinglink is a new service that adds a level of social engagement to static images through tagging. Thinglink works with... 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 readingTools for Transparency: Know Your Acronyms & Hashtags
You might have started noticing hashtags (like the ones seen on Twitter) and acronyms are frequently popping up in Facebook... View Article
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