Sunday comic: Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow writes "This Modern World," a political cartoon. Check out this week's offering:
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A Quick Look at CapWiz
It's likely many of you are aware of CapWiz from Capital Advantage but just in case you haven't, a quick look. CapWiz (it's available on several sites) offers a number of databases with congressional data, local political data, media info, and more. Almost all links allow you to contact a politician/reporter/etc. via email. Three places to find the database: 1) C-SPAN 2) The Hill (a D.C. polical newspaper/web site) 3) USA Today Key Features: + Weekly Free E-Mail Alerts with Voting Records of U.S. Reps + Selected Legislation Listed at Bottom of Page + Media Database (organizations, reporters, producers). The scope is impressive and useful for addresses and phone numbers. However, I found a few cases where it could be updated in a more timely manner. One example. Perhaps the most featured filled version of the CapWiz database comes directly from Capital Advantage at Congress.org. Features include: + Weekly Congress.org Update Newsletter + Congress This Week Podcast + RSS Alerts from Various issue-based Organizations (a directory is also a available) Continue reading
New Poll – Time for a FGI Podcast?
Hi All, We at Free Government Information are considering launching a podcast. We are thinking of something a little like the popular LibVibe podcast, which runs between 5 and 15 minutes and would feature news from this site and other govdoc related blogs and news sources. As far as a publishing schedule, we're thinking about twice a month or so until we got the hang of podcasting. But if there is no interest in a podcast, we could keep working on other stuff. That is why we have a new poll. For the next month we'll take your input on whether we should podcast and hopefully through comments, find out what you'd like to hear. So, please take the poll. If we get at least 50 people saying definitely or maybe, we'll go forward. Continue reading
CRS Updates
On ResourceShelf, our co-senior editor, Shirl Kennedy, has posted some thoughts and recent memos about general public access to CRS content.
Said CRS Director Daniel P. Mulholland, in a memo (PDF; 132 KB) dated 20 March 2007, “(T)o avoid inconsistencies and to increase accountability, CRS policy requires prior approval at the division level before products can be disseminated to non-congressionals.â€We also link to a blog post by Steven Aftergood at FAS. Continue reading
Roundtable on Section 108
Mary Minow of Library Law fame announced today that the transcripts from January's Section 108 Study Group roundtables have been published. Minow particapted in the session on ILL, and she shares her thoughts on her blog. Continue reading