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Carl Malamud Featured in Wired Magazine
There is a great article about Carl Malamud and PACER over at Wired Magazine: "Online Rebel Publishes Millions of Dollars in U.S. Court Records for Free" by Ryan Singel.
Malamud says he's looking forward to the day he doesn't have to game the system. "If I had $10 million, I'd make a copy of all the documents and be done."I hear ya, Carl. I hear ya. Continue reading
FOIA Clinic
The Public Citizen Litigation group, a division of Public Citizen, launched the Public Interest FOIA Clinic, an online resource that helps nonprofit organizations obtain federal government documents. The Clinic provides "direct litigation assistance to public interest organizations, particularly those that have substantive expertise in their area but lack substantial FOIA litigation experience". Check out their FOI Clearinghouse, request legal assistance on behalf of a non-profit organization or public interest group, or add your non-profit FOIA work to the Public Interest FOIA Database. Continue reading
Gov Doc Art
Check out my cousin Gabriel Troy's artwork using government documents. He says about this sculpture, "Federal Paperwork Burden": "I wanted to make these Government documents accessible and inaccessible at the same time. The books are fixed by tension without a back or shelf."
Principles for an Open Transition
Lawrence Lessig launched the website An Open Transition which offers President-elect Obama three principles to "guide the transition in its objective to build upon the very best of the Internet to produce the very best for government". These principles include: - No Legal Barrier to Sharing - No Technological Barrier to Sharing - Free Competition Read more about these principles, view the video, and sign the petition at open-government.us. Continue reading
NY Times Article on Change.gov
The Caucus Blog at the New York Times online just published a blog entry about the recent return and changed Agenda pages at change.gov: Changes at Change.gov: Return of the ‘Agenda’
The section of the Obama-Biden transition homepage detailing the president-elect’s policy proposals that was recently stripped from the site with little explanation, reappeared with some tweaks. Call it the kinder, gentler Change.gov. Gone are references needling the Bush administration for refusing to “tackle health care, education and housing in a manner that benefits the middle class” or for being “one of the most secretive, closed administrations in American history.” Some pages in the “Agenda” portion of the site have been pared down, while others have been expanded. But the most obvious changes focus on weeding out the fiery campaign-style rhetoric of Mr. Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden that initially appeared on the transition Web site.And I especially like this portion of the article:
There was an almost instantaneous outcry from bloggers and other advocates of transparency in government who noticed disappearance.Perhaps they stumbled upon our blog? And apparently, this website notatypewriter.com contains the original agenda pages in PDF and HTML format. Continue reading
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