Comments on: Capitol Words http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2008/06/19/capitol-words/ Recommendations, Resources, and Reform Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:18:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Elegant technology makes things simple | Reasonably Logical http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2008/06/19/capitol-words/comment-page-1/#comment-8925 Elegant technology makes things simple | Reasonably Logical Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:15:13 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/?p=365#comment-8925 [...] encountered this site through the blog of the Open House Project. As I’ve said before, I enjoy reading their articles for the [...] [...] encountered this site through the blog of the Open House Project. As I’ve said before, I enjoy reading their articles for the [...]

]]> By: Gabriela Schneider http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2008/06/19/capitol-words/comment-page-1/#comment-8752 Gabriela Schneider Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:07:55 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/?p=365#comment-8752 If you like Capitol Words, check out its new widget, so you, too, can display the congressional word of the day on your site. Widget script is at the bottom of <a href="http://capitolwords.org/about/" rel="nofollow">this page</a>. I thought <a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/26546/daily_digest_obama_clarifies_what_he_meant_by_public" rel="nofollow">Nancy Scola from TechPresident</a> had a good a point in her write-up on the site about the need for a way to track “word bursts� -- and her mandate to use the API to make it happen: “It'd be great to eventually track "word bursts," to borrow a phrase from computer scientist Jon Kleinberg's tracking of the popularity of phrases in State of the Union addresses, to give us insight into the changes in Congress's zeitgeist over time. Again, there's an API. So again, get to work.� If you like Capitol Words, check out its new widget, so you, too, can display the congressional word of the day on your site. Widget script is at the bottom of this page.

I thought Nancy Scola from TechPresident had a good a point in her write-up on the site about the need for a way to track “word burstsâ€? — and her mandate to use the API to make it happen:
“It’d be great to eventually track “word bursts,” to borrow a phrase from computer scientist Jon Kleinberg’s tracking of the popularity of phrases in State of the Union addresses, to give us insight into the changes in Congress’s zeitgeist over time. Again, there’s an API. So again, get to work.â€?

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