Capitol Words

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by Heather Negley
 
Capitol Words is an interesting new tool from the Sunlight Foundation. The presentation of reminds me a little of  Wordle which is a good thing. It’s nice to see government information in an easy to asborb format. On Capitol Words users can view an image map or tag cloud of the top words of the [...]

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TheHill.com – Gov’t transparency website faces private rival

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TheHill.com – Gov’t transparency website faces private rival
 
As critics slam the administration’s Recovery.gov website for a lack of accessible data, a private company has launched a rival — Recovery.com.
Onvia, a 12-year old consulting group, started Recovery.com with the goal of providing real-time data on spending that comes out of the $787 billion stimulus bill.
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Government 2.0: The Midlife Crisis

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Government 2.0 has reached its midlife crisis. Despite some leadership from influential individualson using social software in government, there is still in many cases a disconnect between authorities issuing directives and ground troops carrying them out. In some corridors of Washington, this impervious middle section of government is jokingly referred to as “the clay layer,” the [...]

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