Congressional Republicans recently released a high production value video on the FISA fight, which prompted a quick response video in return. Political positions and identities are crafted in slicker and more appealing ways, witnessed also in recent discussions of presidentials’ skill at creating a coherent brand. While self-promotion is somewhat essential to […]
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Data Visualizations, Propaganda, Congress
March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · datavisualization · govtrack · mysociety · ohp · visualization
More on the Hyperlocal
February 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
From the MySociety.org blog comes news that they’ve launched their groupsnearyou.com project, adding a new kind of player to the hyperlocal space. The site allows for entering of new local email lists and online groups, so public spaces online are more visible and useful (they have even set up an API). It seems as though […]
Tags: OpenHouse · hyperloca · mysociety
MySociety FOI Site Now Live
February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Via the MySociety.org blog, the UK non-profit developers have launched another brilliant project, this time creating a public facing interface for Freedom of Information requests (referred to as FOIA in the US). You can FOIA almost all agencies, and also browse through pending and fulfilled requests.
This is a great parallel to our Real Time Investigations, […]
Tags: OpenHouse · foia · mysociety · real time investigations
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