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GovTrack announces major updates
Govtack.us has announced some major new features!
- Site Updates in September, December 2008, by Josh Tauberer, December 20, 2008
How to use OpenCongress.org
Have you used OpenCongress.org recently? Are you aware of all its cool features, from RSS feeds to Facebook widgets? Check it all out is this short screencast:
- OpenCongress.org: What’s Happening In Congress? by ryanne, November 2, 2008.
Gov Data Mashups: Apps for Democracy Contest
Are you a techie who has a passion for government information, transparency, coding, mashups, and/or web 2.0 tools? Then sign up for the Apps for Democracy contest! In conjunction with the DC Government’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, the contest is offering $20,000 in prizes to be given to 60 different creators. The goal of the contest is "to reward technology developers with cash prizes and public recognition for creating applications that are useful for the DC government and the citizens, visitors and businesses of Washington, DC." For more information, visit the Apps for Democracy website, and you can follow the contest on Twitter or through their Facebook Group. Dang...if only I was better at coding... Continue reading
Following/mapping the election
If you're like me, you want to keep track of the presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain. I thought I'd share a few sites that I've bookmarked in order to keep up to the minute. My favorite site is Electoral-vote.com. E-V collects national and state polls and shows a nice map of the current electoral vote count. As new state polls are released, the maps, spreadsheets, tables, graphs, etc. are updated. There's also a comparison for that day in the 2004 presidential race, roll-over stats for how each state voted since 1992, and tracking of Senate and House elections. Another site of interest is FiveThirtyEight "electoral projections done right." This one has lots of graphs, "tipping point" states, a return on investment index and more. 538 (the # of electors in the electoral college of course :-) ) also tracks governors' races. It's run by Nate Silver, a writer and baseball statistician. You know how crazy baseball fans are for data, so you know that this site is sucking up as much data as they can, chewing it up and serving it up in lots of different ways. Also check out RealClearPolitics. This one pulls together news, blogs, editorials, polls and electoral maps (although the mapping feature is only for presidential race). [Thanks David Weinberger/JoHo for the RealClearPolitics tip!] Continue reading
UN refugee agency teams up with google earth
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has just announced the "Google Earth Outreach" partnership with google earth. The program will allow humanitarian agencies the ability to use Google Earth and Maps to "highlight their work on behalf of millions of refugees and other populations of concern in some of the world's most remote and difficult areas." All one needs is to download the google earth application and the UNHCR kml file, then launch the app and open the kml file (KML = Keyhole Markup Language). Navigate to a region -- like Chad, Iraq, Colombia or the Darfur region of Sudan -- and you'll get access to news, video and other information about the situation and daily life/struggles of refugees. Check out the google earth gallery for other KML files that people have built -- from world energy consumption to Death valley driving tour to Yosemite 1/2 dome hikes to the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860! I haven't yet come across an FDLP KML file, but perhaps one of our readers would like to start one? It's as easy as creating a google map and clicking the button "view in google earth" at the top right of the map. This will automatically generate the KML file. You can then send it to admin AT freegovinfo DOT info and we'll post it to the site. Continue reading
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