April 2009
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Trickle-Down Datanomics
First, sorry for “datanomics”. It rhymed.
Second, with all the recent talk about APIs to make Congressional legislation more accessible to the public in general and developers in particular, and the upcoming proposed launch of data.gov, some questions still remain about how much and what kind of data will be exposed, and in what format(s). A deeper question also exists: does/will the...
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A Modest Proposal for State Legislatures
There has been some excitement in the web development community among people who work with government data. A recent bill before Congress, HR1105, contains a proposal to make bills and other legislative information more accessible online, something that would enhance the public’s ability to stay better informed about what’s going on in Congress, and also help web developers and...