Just a few years ago crowdsourcing was a novel concept, mainly untried. Now that the idea has gained traction, it’s... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: 5 Buzz Tracking Tools
Keeping tabs on the transparency movement can seem like an arduous task, but thankfully there are a number of tools... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: GitHub
With 97 Sunlight software projects hosted on GitHub, we’re clearly fans of the service. GitHub, launched in July of 2008,... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Google Fusion Tables
Just look at any one of Sunlight’s projects and you’ll realize that it takes a mountain of data to help... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Scribd – making documents accessible
We’re big fans of Scribd here at Sunlight. For a while now, we’ve been posting transparency related documents to the... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Live Streaming to the Web
For many, the “live web” was a meaningless concept until the aftermath of the 2009 Iranian presidential election when protesters... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: The Vote-to-Promote Model
News aggregation services that use the vote-to-promote model like Reddit and Digg, and Delicious and StumbleUpon to a degree, are... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: PolitiWidgets
PolitiWidgets are easy to use, customizable, political infographics you can embed into your article or blog post, offering your readers... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: YouTube Direct
Online video has made quite a bit of progress since the early days of Quicktime and RealMedia, technologies so slugish... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: The Power of Aggregation
Last week my dad snapped this great photo of a Giant Silk Moth resting in his southwest Ohio backyard –... View Article
Continue reading
59063
