That’s MY Girlfriend…

Posted on June 28, 2007 by C Johnson
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If you’re like me, then the words ‘how do people come up with this stuff’ are never far from your lips when perusing the blogosphere. Sometimes it’s said in horror, sometimes in envy, but always in very real awe over what some of our fellow bloggers are able to dream up.

Congress and Web 2.0

Posted on February 27, 2007 by C Lin
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OpenCongress.org brings the U.S. government into a Web 2.0 space. Co-creator David Moore describes it:

One of the problems we were aiming to address is that there is a lack of comprehensive, usable web resources for people and groups writing about bills and issues in Congress. The Library of Congress website, Thomas, doesn’t do nearly enough to make Congressional information accessible—meaning that political bloggers didn’t have anywhere helpful to link when discussing Congress, that there wasn’t a way for their readers to get the “big picture” behind an issue. The lack of public knowledge about what’s really happening in Congress breeds apathy about political change in general.

OpenCongress helps close the information gap between political insiders and the public by bringing together official government information from Thomas (by way of GovTrack.us), news articles from Google News, blog posts from Technorati, campaign contribution data from OpenSecrets.org, and more—to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress.