When President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 into law Tuesday, he announced that Recovery.gov, a Web site he first spoke about last month, was live. The new Web site is committed to transparently showing citizens where all of the $787 billion in the stimulus package is being spent. While I [...]
With Twitter being all the rage lately, there are bound to be questions about how the popular microblogging tool should be deployed in government. Some agencies fully embrace Twitter, giving the intimidation of government a human face. Others simply have no clue what they’re doing. Accordingly, their follower count reflects that. But, you can’t blame [...]
While the Food and Drug Administration may have many internal issues, one thing they get right is how to use widgets effectively. The recent salmonella outbreak in peanut products has prompted the FDA to create a widget that has been embedded across the internet. The approximately 250 by 425 pixel widget conains a plethora of [...]
The ever-popular Gov Gab blog from our friends at the General Services Administration was very active in the month of January, due in large part to President Obama’s inauguration. Seven posts out of 33 for the month were tagged with “inauguration.” Other popular tags dealt with the salmonella peanut scare, government resources for kids on [...]
According to washingtonpost.com, Wikileaks has posted “thousands of previously unreleased [Congressional Research Service] reports” on their Web site. The icing on the cake is that “the group says it is on track to receive a steady stream of new reports.” This is great news, and looks like great complement to the already large Open CRS [...]
Wow. That was my reaction after watching CNN.com’s first installment of Freshman Year, a new Web video series that follows two freshman House members. While the members, Reps. Jared Polis, D-Colo., and Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, are ideological opposites, they seem to have a lot in common as freshman members of the House. CNN.com issued both [...]
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