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Sunlight Foundation Congress App: Great App Put to Immediate use
We recently became aware of a new(ish) app from the Sunlight Foundation. It is the Congress App and is available for both iOS and Android. We think anyone who is interested in keeping tabs on Congress and who owns a smartphone ought to download this app. I (Daniel) have the Android version, which is divided […]
COL’s FDLP Task Force Survey and FGI’s responses
[updated 4pm 1/7/14. I clarified a couple of statements. JRJ] Last summer, the ALA Committee on Legislation (COL), Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) Task Force released its FDLP report and recommendations. In response, FGI wrote a white paper “Wait! Don’t Digitize and Discard! A White Paper on ALA COL Discussion Issue #1a”. While agreeing with […]
Government Link Rot
Over the holidays, we switched FGI to new CMS software and a new theme and, in the process, installed some new back-end tools allowing us to do things like easily check for broken links. FGI went online in November 2004, so we have a little more than 9 years of outgoing links. Of those, 2676 […]
Reflections on the end of a year and the beginning of a new year
James and I were both impressed to see that MLIS student Crystal Vicente posted a link on govdoc-l to her paper about the effects on government information of the government shutdown. It is great to see library students addressing the issues that confront the future of government information. We’d like to see more students […]
Defend Net Neutrality: Sign White House Petition
January 15, 2014 / 1 Comment on Defend Net Neutrality: Sign White House Petition
We recently received the following White House petition by e-mail and hope you will sign it: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/restore-net-neutrality-directing-fcc-classify-internet-providers-common-carriers/5CWS1M4P we petition the Obama administration to: Restore Net Neutrality By Directing the FCC to Classify Internet Providers as “Common Carriers” On January 14, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that struck down […]
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