Comments on: Princeton Paper on Government Transparency http://techliberation.com/2008/06/02/princeton-paper-on-government-transparency/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sun, 27 May 2012 12:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jerry Brito http://techliberation.com/2008/06/02/princeton-paper-on-government-transparency/comment-page-1/#comment-54469 Jerry Brito Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:56:28 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10864#comment-54469 <p>FYI - <a href="http://OpenRegulations.org">OpenRegulations.org</a> is a site I threw up a while back that serves as an alternative interface to the government's Regulations.gov. Unfortunately, it broke a few months ago and I hadn't been able to fix it. The site was cited in the Princeton paper and it gave me motivation to finally figure out what was wrong and fix it. So, it's fixed. Check it out. The major improvement it offers over the official site is that it offers per-agency RSS feeds rather than the one firehose feed the government offers.</p> FYI – OpenRegulations.org is a site I threw up a while back that serves as an alternative interface to the government’s Regulations.gov. Unfortunately, it broke a few months ago and I hadn’t been able to fix it. The site was cited in the Princeton paper and it gave me motivation to finally figure out what was wrong and fix it. So, it’s fixed. Check it out. The major improvement it offers over the official site is that it offers per-agency RSS feeds rather than the one firehose feed the government offers.

]]> By: Jerry Brito http://techliberation.com/2008/06/02/princeton-paper-on-government-transparency/comment-page-1/#comment-42120 Jerry Brito Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:56:28 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10864#comment-42120 <p>FYI - OpenRegulations.org is a site I threw up a while back that serves as an alternative interface to the government's Regulations.gov. Unfortunately, it broke a few months ago and I hadn't been able to fix it. The site was cited in the Princeton paper and it gave me motivation to finally figure out what was wrong and fix it. So, it's fixed. Check it out. The major improvement it offers over the official site is that it offers per-agency RSS feeds rather than the one firehose feed the government offers.</p> FYI – OpenRegulations.org is a site I threw up a while back that serves as an alternative interface to the government’s Regulations.gov. Unfortunately, it broke a few months ago and I hadn’t been able to fix it. The site was cited in the Princeton paper and it gave me motivation to finally figure out what was wrong and fix it. So, it’s fixed. Check it out. The major improvement it offers over the official site is that it offers per-agency RSS feeds rather than the one firehose feed the government offers.

]]> By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2008/06/02/princeton-paper-on-government-transparency/comment-page-1/#comment-54468 MikeT Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:39:04 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10864#comment-54468 <p>Don,<br><br>You're comparing two separate things. The portal is what the VP gets to interact with, the RSS is the data stream for the content. It's like trying to show off gas to a car buyer and get them impressed with your product. To the VP, the novelty of the RSS is when you tell them in passing that in that format the content can be used by a myriad number of company assets and customers without modification---more bang for the corporate buck.</p> Don,

You’re comparing two separate things. The portal is what the VP gets to interact with, the RSS is the data stream for the content. It’s like trying to show off gas to a car buyer and get them impressed with your product. To the VP, the novelty of the RSS is when you tell them in passing that in that format the content can be used by a myriad number of company assets and customers without modification—more bang for the corporate buck.

]]> By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2008/06/02/princeton-paper-on-government-transparency/comment-page-1/#comment-42115 MikeT Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:39:04 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10864#comment-42115 <p>Don,</p> <p>You're comparing two separate things. The portal is what the VP gets to interact with, the RSS is the data stream for the content. It's like trying to show off gas to a car buyer and get them impressed with your product. To the VP, the novelty of the RSS is when you tell them in passing that in that format the content can be used by a myriad number of company assets and customers without modification---more bang for the corporate buck.</p> Don,

You’re comparing two separate things. The portal is what the VP gets to interact with, the RSS is the data stream for the content. It’s like trying to show off gas to a car buyer and get them impressed with your product. To the VP, the novelty of the RSS is when you tell them in passing that in that format the content can be used by a myriad number of company assets and customers without modification—more bang for the corporate buck.

]]> By: dmarti http://techliberation.com/2008/06/02/princeton-paper-on-government-transparency/comment-page-1/#comment-54467 dmarti Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:56:10 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10864#comment-54467 <p>The private sector has the same problem. It's easier to demo a "company portal" to your Vice President of Marketing than it is to show up a code repository or an RSS feed.</p> The private sector has the same problem. It’s easier to demo a “company portal” to your Vice President of Marketing than it is to show up a code repository or an RSS feed.

]]> By: Don Marti http://techliberation.com/2008/06/02/princeton-paper-on-government-transparency/comment-page-1/#comment-42105 Don Marti Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:56:10 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10864#comment-42105 <p>The private sector has the same problem. It's easier to demo a "company portal" to your Vice President of Marketing than it is to show up a code repository or an RSS feed.</p> The private sector has the same problem. It’s easier to demo a “company portal” to your Vice President of Marketing than it is to show up a code repository or an RSS feed.

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