The Library of Congress has published a new Digital Preservation Newsletter (pdf), via ResourceShelf.

It touches on OOXML, the PDF/A format, NDIIPP Partnerships, and the MetaArchive Cooperative.
To subscribe to their newsletter, go here.

(via this post)

As distributed and online-based media develop into a more effective counterbalance, will the “traditional” media’s public value to decrease even further?

Via OpenCRS, here’s a new Congressional Research Service Report about CRS. It outlines basic legislative structures from an unusually thoughtful perspective.

I just discovered DARPA’s Policy Analysis Market project.  The idea has me wondering what the place is for market based deliberations solutions, and when it’s appropriate to give actors a self-incentive that isn’t already inherent to a situation.  There’s a strong argument to be made for the predictive power of markets, and their […]

This afternoon I attended a talk by Aneesh Chopra, the Secretary of Technology for Virginia, hosted by New Media Strategies. Chopra described his rather unusual job, a sort of newly styled state-CIO position, and gave us his vision for government and the development of the surrounding areas in the process. Chopra began by […]

From Congress Daily, on IG reform: p. 12, monday may 5, 2008.  My review of this issue is available here.

House and Senate negotiators might start talks this week over separate versions of legislation aimed at ensuring the independence of federal inspectors general, though staffers said a deal is unlikely before budget discussions […]

(cross posted from Sunlight)
In the month since PublicMarkup.org launched, we’ve gotten 121 comments on our draft reform legislation, the Transparency in Government Act of 2008. The media and blog coverage has been overwhelmingly favorable, but not without a healthy dose of skepticism.
The main questions we’ve faced attempt to locate the bill within a traditional […]

After previewing it first, I attended last Wednesday’s Hearing by the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee about “Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government.” For fuller coverage, see FireDogLake, the Guardian, ACS Blog, or the statements and testimony from the hearing (set off on the upper right). While […]

As I wrote in this first email, The US Patent and Trademark Office held a webcast (archived too) discussion on Wednesday to discuss public access to patent application documents, and to invite public suggestions about the demand for this information, and for suggestions on how they should open access to it.
This is exciting to me […]