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Entries from January 2009

Hoyer V Cantor

January 21st, 2009 · No Comments

(source)

Here’s an attempt to embed the video from C-SPAN of Hoyer and Cantor discussing congressional transparency.
It came up on January 15th, provoking discussion on our public google group here.

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Deep Throat Meets Data Mining

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

There is a nice article about computational journalism in the current issue of Miller-McCune. It mentions lots of good use of government data and Sunlight in particular.
Deep Throat Meets Data Mining by John Mecklin. Miller-McCune (January/February 2009)

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How You Can Help

January 11th, 2009 · No Comments

(email from our google group)
Clay Johnson, Sunlight’s Labs Director, has put together an introductory post and wiki page on how anyone can help participate in the labs work.
In that same spirit, I’ve got three rather simple things that anyone could do to help open the House and Senate.  If editing a wiki is a challenge, [...]

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Rep McKeon’s Video Tours

January 10th, 2009 · No Comments

If you’re like me, you’ll watch this straight through.  Start with “NEW Behind the Scenes Video”, and see if you agree — this is compelling stuff.
I don’t know what it is that makes this so, but even though I’m not a resident of Representative Buck McKeon’s California House District, I can’t look away.
In the video, [...]

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