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Archive for June 2008

Obama doing more great work for government transparency

This is fantastic. Senators Obama and Coburn have introduced the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008 (S. 3077), which would modify their 2006 transparency act. That first bill created USASpending.gov, a searchable web site of government outlays. … The new bill would expand the scope of information available via USASpending.gov, adding [...]

Anyone want the domain name ‘missingwiki.org’

I’m not going to continue to develop missingwiki.org- I think the need isn’t that great, and if a project doesn’t have good docs, they get what they deserve. Plus the whole thing will be redundant in 18 months anyway when the Distributed Meta Git Wiki Semantic Structured Status Web solves all of our problems. Anyone [...]

obamasresume.org — still relevant?

Back in March I announced a new project, obamasresume.org. The point of the project was to demonstrate that Obama’s experience was significant, relevant, and impressive. There were a lot of assertions that Clinton was far more experienced than Obama, and I wanted to help set the record straight a little. The site didn’t get fleshed [...]

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