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 [...]
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 [...]
It finally looks like the Obama Administration has made good on a campaign promise: allowing for public comment on non-emergency pieces of legislation before the president signs them. While the public was overlooked last week when President Obama signed the S. 181 — the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, it looks like the [...]
The Washington Post today has a great article about Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and his Twittering efforts. The article is cleverly written in paragraphs of less than 140 words: To meet Twitter limits, these paragraphs are 140 characters or fewer. Please overlook odd spelling or punctuation, this time. Warner is definitely one of the more [...]