Happy Sunshine Week! Congressional Data Coalition, open data, and public records
Happy Sunshine Week 2014! This is the week every year when open government activists and organizations, journalists, libraries, teachers and others interested in the public’s right to know promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information and [[FOIA]]. Check out the Sunshine Week events happening all this week! As a […]
The Government Makes the Internet Better
Kevin Taglang of the Benton Foundation outlines the findings of a recent GAO report, Federal Broadband Deployment Programs and Small Business, and concludes that The Government Makes the Internet Better. The Government Makes the Internet Better, by Kevin Taglang, Benton Foundation Blog (March 14, 2014) Although it did not garner much coverage, an independent, nonpartisan […]
State Agency Databases Project Activity Report: 3/16/2014
There is a lot of activity to report at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. Partly because I took at three week reporting break, but mostly because our volunteers have been extremely busy fixing links and adding new databases. NEW VOLUNTEER As promised, Rhode Island has been adopted! Many thanks to Stacy R. Williams […]
Happy Birthday Web!
On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee published Information Management: A Proposal and, soon, the first web server was running on a NeXT workstation. So, Happy Birthday to the Web! I’m guessing some FGI readers were not librarians (or born) 25 years ago, so return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear and see […]
Zach Galifianakis interviews President Obama Between two ferns
President Barack Obama sits down with Zach Galifianakis for his most memorable interview yet.