When creating an RSS feed, one should have two audiences in mind: first is your human readers that will be subscribing with their news readers, second are the computers that will be mixing your feed with others, and transforming your feed into other formats (iCal feeds, integrating it into a website, etc.) For committees in [...]
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Committee Feeds: Some Recommendations
March 16th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · Structured Data
Committees: The most important not-understood aspect of Congress
February 28th, 2007 · No Comments
When I first started working on what would become GovTrack six years ago, as a college sophomore who had up to that point zero interest in politics, I had no idea what congressional committees were all about. I don’t think they ever came up in any civics-related classes through High School. Really, we’re all lead [...]
Bill Versioning: Unintended consequences of data openness
February 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments
After a bill is introduced in Congress, we know it may change in a whole host of ways before it is passed finally. But if you’ve read the bill at one point in time and want to know how it’s changed since you last read it, until recently your only hope was to scan through [...]
Welcome to the Open House Project
January 11th, 2007 · No Comments
“We pledge to make this the most honest, ethical, and open Congress in history.” Nancy Pelosi, November 14, 2006
The last time the House rules were seriously reconsidered was 1995, when the Republicans took over Congress. Since then, the internet has changed the way that Americans communicate with each other. With a new Congressional mandate to [...]
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