Lawrence Lessig discusses Change-Congress.org, a online tool for users to tag congressional candidates as supporting or opposing reforms such as public financing, earmark reform, and congressional transparency. Lessig also responds to a few questions about InternetForEveryone.org, a coalition of public interest and industry groups working for open, universal, and affordable access to broadband.
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In this 24 minute interview, John Culberson backs down from the partisan call to arms he issued this week on Twitter. He discusses transparency and technology in Congress, and the efforts to clarify the rules governing which web sites a member of Congress can participate in. Culberson also talks about wind energy, nuclear energy, oil exploration, doubling the budget for the National Science Foundation, and interesting innovations in Carbon Nanotubes which could dramatically change the way we use and store energy.
Social network is just beginning to affect the way the governed relate to The Government. Let's not close the door on congressional access to tools like Twitter, Qik, and Identi.ca. The Sunlight Foundation urges the Congress to clarify rules and remove restrictions on member web use. If you want congress to let member tweet, sign the petition by tweeting.
The reason why I think data that should be freely available is the largest set of
Government data is that many of the forms of this data can bind to everything, for
example location data is often held by the government and just about everything real has
location. Time data is often held by government archives, and the data goes back lots
longer than the data that must be maintained secretly.
The Internet Archive obeys robots.txt of course (lucky for you if you have access to it on your site, otherwise not so much) and they will also agree to remove things at the domain owners request. Other libraries might not be so accommodating, specifically the Danish netarchive might not be so accommodating, lets look at some stuff they say - the following is from the already linked survey report:








