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Government Health Web Sites Expose Personal Data
A new article in Communications of the ACM by Timothy Libert, a doctoral student in the Annenberg School for Communication, demonstrates that web sites – including government web sites such as CDC.gov and Healthcare.gov – pass personal health information to companies that are not subject to regulation or oversight. Libert, Tim. “Privacy Implications of Health […]
All 100 Senators are now on Twitter
Twitter announced last Friday that all 100 members of the Senate as well as 90% (398 members) of the House of Representatives are on Twitter. In the 112th Congress only 44% of Senators were on Twitter. House use of Twitter has also increased from 35% to 90% (398 representatives). Twitter also announced that Michelle Obama will be tweeting from @FLOTUS about her life as First Lady.
- An entire Senate on Twitter. Really. By Joseph Marks, NextGov (January 23, 2013). Raw numbers can be misleading where Twitter is concerned. The federal tech sphere alone is littered with rarely used Twitter accounts. The Senate’s story seems different, though. A quick review of about 30 senators’ handles revealed no slackers. All of the senators -- or usually their staffs, of course -- are tweeting at least several times a week but, more importantly, a solid proportion of those tweets include content that would actually be valuable to people following the senators’ activities, such as links to legislation the lawmaker introduced, notes on committee work and alerts about media appearances.
- 100 Senators and the 57th Inauguration, Twitter Blog (January 18, 2013).
- US Senate: A public list by Twitter Government: "Principal Accounts of Members of the U.S. Senate (a mix of campaign and government accounts)."
- US House: A public list by Twitter Government: "Principal Accounts of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives (mix of campaign/govt accounts)".
Continue reading Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive
Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive, By Michael O'Connell, Federal News Radio, (Dec. 7, 2011).
The Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the library's repository of historical documents. ...Researchers will be able to look at the Twitter archive as a complete set of data, which they could then data-mine for interesting information.Continue reading
Roundup of Government Info News and New Resources
Time once again for a selection of news and new resources that we hope will be an interest to the FGI community. The posts are from INFOdocket.com (@infofodocket) where we compile and post new items daily from a variety of resources. 1. “Obama Wants Better Digital Archive of Federal Records” + Full Text of Presidential Memorandum 2. Now Available: EPA Releases Formerly Confidential Chemical Information 3. San Antonio, TX: New Online Database: Historical Election Results are Digitized 4. Statistics Canada to Make All Online Data Free 5. UK Parliament: MPs to Investigate Library Closures 6. TR Center Officially Launches the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Collection 7. Idaho: Libraries to Adjust to New Internet Filtering Law 8. U.S.: National Archives Trust Fund To Sell Copies of the 1940 Census (Digital & Microfilm Versions) Available 9. All Thing Preservation: New NARA (National Archives) Twitter Stream & Tumblr Page 10. U.S. History: Senator George Mitchell Oral History Project Debuts Online 11.New Social Media Resource: “PolitickerUSA is the Best Way to Track Politicians’ Tweets” 12. Video Now Online of NARA’s “What’s Next in Social Media” Forum 13. Child Welfare Information Gateway — State Guides & Manuals Search 14. GPO Releases Its First App 15. New UN Database Available: Expert Panel Launches Tool to Fight Arbitrary Deprivation of Freedom 16. State of Minnesota Posts Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDD) 17. U.S. Government: USAID Launches New GeoCenter 18. Public Access to Indiana’s Historic Sanborn Maps Provides Treasure Trove of Information 19. California: More than 13,000 Online Maps Provide Historic View of State 20. UNESCO’s Global Open Access Portal Now Online Continue reading
New Report Looks at Social Media Usage by Members of the U.S. Congress
Via INFOdocket.com From the Medill News Service (For the Associated Press): Eight of 10 members of Congress are tweeting and using Facebook, but only a handful use the social media sites to reach out to one of their most elusive constituent groups – Millennials, according to some experts. [Clip] Despite the fact that more than 80 percent of Congress is on Facebook and Twitter, only a handful communicate with Millennials in a meaningful way. “I think there is room for improvement with everyone across the board, no matter where you are ideologically, in talking to young people,” said Ron Meyer of Young America’s Foundation, a conservative youth advocacy group. The article includes two sidebar with statistics. Here are a couple of examples: * Rep. Darrell Issa — @DarrellIssa — , R-San Diego, is the most frequent tweeter, averaging 13.6 tweets per day. * Two-thirds of congressional tweeters predominately use Twitter.com directly. The other third uses Twitter applications. The most commonly used application is TweetDeck, with 12.7 percent of congressional offices using the application more often than not. * The most popular day of the week to tweet on Capitol Hill is Wednesday. One member, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher — @DanaRohrabacher — R-Huntington Beach, tweets most on Sundays. He also replies the most often: 56.4 percent of his tweets are replies. Read the Complete Article Continue reading
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