when six weeks ago united states treasury secretary henry paulson asked congress to entrust him with 700 billion of the peoples money the american public reacted with so many questions comments and concerns that web traffic swamped many of the sites offering capitol hill coverage. one of the sites temporarily shortcircuited was the online hub opencongress . but for opencongress......
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back in july i wrote about show us a better way a contest set up by the united kingdoms power of information task force that asks citizens to identify what they would like to see done with public information. if they like the idea they will help fund it to the tune of a20000 to develop the idea to the next level. here are some examples of ideas they are looking for. the deadli......
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crossposted from the open senate project blog sunlight has just sent out the following press release announcing the launch of the open senate project . as ellen blogged this morning were delighted to have majority leader reids endorsement of the effort so we can apply the same public discussion and analysis to senate reform priorities as weve applied to ......
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cross posted from ohp weve come a long way since i wrote the following in the projects first press release since the value of our recommendations increases along with the expertise of those contributing to our project were looking to the greater community to help identify attainable reforms said john wonderlich who is organizing the project w......
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tonight on geeknights we ramble on about old computers. in the news apple laptops tomorrow study warns of hearing loss openoffice 3.0 and thomas permanent links . scotts thing jay walkers library ryms thing all ra floor......
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skin deep computer program produces image of an ideal you nytimes.com tags images informatique technology photo handles help thomas library of congress tags permalien links url identificateurs loc droit uri thomas publishes permanent links another recommendation realized the open house project tags pe......
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every week i climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the sunlight. i use this series to highlight local blogs that do a great job of covering local state and congressional political news.athis week i have highlights from montana nevada oregon and texas. in montana mtpolitics.net highlights the new montana election wiki .a the wiki aims to be an all stop shop fo......
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crossposted from the open house project fulfilling one of the recommendations of the open house project report the library of congress has published on their thomas web page directions for creating permanent links. from our report we also recommend that thomas provide permanent links to all documents in an obvious way to enable web researchers to directly refer t......
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note this is a followup to my post yesterday about twitters impact on this years election. if you havent already heard a big win came over the weekend in the form of franking reform that will open the doors to allow congress to log on and communicate over the web with their constituents and anyone else out in the cloud. one of the main advocates for the reform the ......
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now that the house and senate have adopted rules allowing congressmen to join the web 2.0 world they can tweet to their hearts content. accordingly a new widget released by a government transparency group allows people to follow their favorite politicians latest microblogs. the sunlight foundations capitol tweet widget provides updates every 10 minutes......
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on friday we told you about the happy ending to months of negotiations to modernize the franking rules that govern how members of congress can use the internet to communicate with us about their work. the new rules just passed by the house and senate allow members of congress to communicate with us on sites such as twitter youtube and flickr without recrimination. we advocated for these ......
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crossposted from the open house project yesterday after months of negotiations and proposals the house joined the senate in updating the arcane guidelines that govern how members of congress use the internet. in may of 2007 the sunlight foundation released the open house project report which included an entire chapter on the issue of franking reform. that chapter prepared by......
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if like many youre trying to follow any of the various provisions in the bailout bill as they morph through various stages of the legislative process how do you do it short version paper bad version control good . the bill has gone through many iterations treasury dodd frank thursday 925 sunday am 928 hr 3997 and now hr 1424 . how can one possibly ......
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as the senate moves forward today with the newest version of the bailout bill now being referred to as the rescue plan sunlight has been feverishly parsing the text of the new proposal as provided by the senate banking committee . we have finished the first part of the bill division a which is now posted for review and commentary on publicmarkup.org . if congres......
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scroll for updates americans are about to forced to drink the nastiest koolaid ever concocted by man. we are going to have a bill shoved down our throats that we are being told is good and necessary. mind you we are being told this is a good bill by the same people who are responsible for putting the united states on the brink of economic disaster. do you want to believe them and drink thei......
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...y governments responsibility we also work with congress on transparency reforms.a thats where i come in.a part policy analyst part lobbyist part blogger part director i write at theopenhou seproject. com and on the sunlight foundation blog and try to keep as much of my work public as possible. ive spent the day today for example obtaining helping process and writing about the propose...
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the first draft is here. dean baker says no on the bailout though he hasnt seen the detailed contours yet. krug man s a very tentative yes.......
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today is one web day its third annual celebration. the event an earth day for the internet is the brainchild of susan crawford who wanted to make sure we dont take this most amazing and transformative new medium for granted. im honored to be part of washingtons celebration of onewebday and to know that we are just one small part of a celebration that821......
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some of you are wondering why i wrote so aggressively about michael capuanos proposed rules for house use of the web. simply put ive tried to work with members of the house and senate to do neat internet projects like legislation 2.0 or putting legislation online and ethics and franking rules always create bottlenecks to carrying them out. its very i......
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in an example of an early failure to foresee how the internet would change everyday communication the rules restricted members from sending emails to their family and friends and from using the internet to access web sites that may be considered outside the realm of offi cial business. as one house aide later complained some members say you should be able to email your son b......
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the democrats have long positioned themselves as the political party of the younger generation. and it is widely assumed that if generation y turns out to vote in large numbers barack obamas chances of becoming our next president increase significantly. so it comes as a big surprise that the democratic leadership in congress is trying to shut down the outreach of its members through ......
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republicans in the house of representatives have been have been going around for the last couple of weeks accusing democrats of trying to censor the free speech rights of any house member. ive been trying to figure out whats really going on through all the political spin. in sum it seems like the republicans have pinpointed a particular representa tive8217 s trouble in articulatin......
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rep. john culberson rtx is on twitter johnculberson . so is rep. tim ryan doh timryan . for those who dont know twitter is a microblog that enables users to tweet out short text messages in 140 characters or less about a sentence or two designed to answer this question what are you doing right now the popularity of the ......
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three years ago when i told a mentor from the tech sector that i was soon leaving my job as an intelligence analyst to start a technology masters program she replied its good that youre getting out of that field. she didnt like the intelligence communitys work and in her eyes the longer i stayed the more it would corrupt me. ive always thoug......
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