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Blawgers : GovTrack.us to Track Federal Legislation by RSS
This posting is essential for law bloggers (via Sifry's Alerts).
Blawgers, if you talk about legislation on your blog and you register your blog at GovTrack.us and provide them with your XML feed URL, your blog will automatically show up on GovTrack.us when you post about legislation. [We are going to test this feature by posting the following sentence taken from GovTrack: "H.R. 82: To regulate the use by interactive computer services of Social Security account numbers and related personally indentifiable information. (Introduced; Jan 4, 2005)"].
Read on....
What a surprise! Grad student Joshua Tauberer runs a site we were not at all familiar with called GovTrack.us which tracks federal US legislation. As written there on January 8, 2005, GovTrack.us is the Grand Prize Winner of the Technorati API Award:
"Last night Technorati, a blog search engine, announced the winners of their first developers contest, and GovTrack scored #1 for integrating the blogosphere with the world of U.S. legislation. Needless to say, this is a great start to 2005."
Technorati is surely one of the most useful of all website tools for bloggers, so such an award is quite an achievement.
GovTrack.us describes itself as:
"[A] nexus of information about the United States Congress. This site is a crossroads for data on the status of legislation, the activities of representatives, campaign contributions and other statistics, and public commentary. Best of all, you can track Congress with personalized email updates."
The tracking is by RSS.
For geeks only there is a technical posting about GovTrack.us where Tauberer writes the following interesting paragraphs about citizens and government:
"There is a huge divide between citizens and government in the United States. I'm no expert in politics, but it seems to me that this is bad. We can have better government if we can make it simpler for people to see what their representatives are doing. GovTrack.us brings together information about Congress from various sources, and then presents it to users in new and useful ways. GovTrack is the power of the Internet put to use to close the citizen-country divide.
GovTrack has two parts. The first part is bringing the information together, which is a topic for another article. The second part is making the information useful through the web. In particular, I'm going to talk here about how Mono and a custom page generation system make GovTrack's website go."
There is also a GovTrack.us moderated mail list at Yahoo Groups.
Some blog links to GovTrack.us are:
ResearchBuzz
Smart Mobs
Snippets
APIBlog
EODStrings
Oceanside, Nevada
FrostGate
The law blogs do not seem to have discovered GovTrack.us yet, but it looks like a winner to us.
Permalink : Andis Kaulins : 1/12/2005 06:11:00 PM
Blawgers : GovTrack.us to Track Federal Legislation by RSS
This posting is essential for law bloggers (via Sifry's Alerts).
Blawgers, if you talk about legislation on your blog and you register your blog at GovTrack.us and provide them with your XML feed URL, your blog will automatically show up on GovTrack.us when you post about legislation. [We are going to test this feature by posting the following sentence taken from GovTrack: "H.R. 82: To regulate the use by interactive computer services of Social Security account numbers and related personally indentifiable information. (Introduced; Jan 4, 2005)"].
Read on....
What a surprise! Grad student Joshua Tauberer runs a site we were not at all familiar with called GovTrack.us which tracks federal US legislation. As written there on January 8, 2005, GovTrack.us is the Grand Prize Winner of the Technorati API Award:
"Last night Technorati, a blog search engine, announced the winners of their first developers contest, and GovTrack scored #1 for integrating the blogosphere with the world of U.S. legislation. Needless to say, this is a great start to 2005."
Technorati is surely one of the most useful of all website tools for bloggers, so such an award is quite an achievement.
GovTrack.us describes itself as:
"[A] nexus of information about the United States Congress. This site is a crossroads for data on the status of legislation, the activities of representatives, campaign contributions and other statistics, and public commentary. Best of all, you can track Congress with personalized email updates."
The tracking is by RSS.
For geeks only there is a technical posting about GovTrack.us where Tauberer writes the following interesting paragraphs about citizens and government:
"There is a huge divide between citizens and government in the United States. I'm no expert in politics, but it seems to me that this is bad. We can have better government if we can make it simpler for people to see what their representatives are doing. GovTrack.us brings together information about Congress from various sources, and then presents it to users in new and useful ways. GovTrack is the power of the Internet put to use to close the citizen-country divide.
GovTrack has two parts. The first part is bringing the information together, which is a topic for another article. The second part is making the information useful through the web. In particular, I'm going to talk here about how Mono and a custom page generation system make GovTrack's website go."
There is also a GovTrack.us moderated mail list at Yahoo Groups.
Some blog links to GovTrack.us are:
ResearchBuzz
Smart Mobs
Snippets
APIBlog
EODStrings
Oceanside, Nevada
FrostGate
The law blogs do not seem to have discovered GovTrack.us yet, but it looks like a winner to us.
Permalink : Andis Kaulins : 1/12/2005 06:11:00 PM
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