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Technology Liberation Front: More on the FCC’s e-Government Transparency Efforts: ECFS, RSS, Social Media & Setting Priorities

  • Mike Sullivan · 3 months ago
    I trust you overlooked the fact that the RSS feeds include one for Instructional Television Fixed Service ("ITFS") applications -- a service that has not been in existence for many years? It has long been superseded by the Educational Broadband Service ("EBS"). If you add the ITFS feed to your reader, you will discover all of two ITFS public notices -- both of which are from 2002!!! My guess is that someone at the FCC set up those RSS feeds ten years ago but never made them public, and the FCC simply dumped all of its RSS feeds onto the new page.
  • MikeRT · 3 months ago

    The FCC needs a modern Content Management System. The announcement of today’s news isn’t available in HTML on the FCC website.


    If they implement one for their blogs, it better not be WordPress, considering all of the wondering security issues WordPress has been having of late.
  • Stan · 3 months ago
    You might note that the previous Consumer Advisory Committee, with the work of Gene Crick from Texas, made a formal recommendation to the FCC to have RSS feeds in order to make it easier for the public to follow FCC work. Gene Crick could not get a meeting with former Ch Martin to discuss the recommendation, the recommendation reportedly never went anywhere, and Gene Crick was not invited back to the CAC. Go figure. It's surprising that the Martin Administration did not have FCC staff returning to carving FCC orders into stone tablets.
  • Neil Chilson · 3 months ago
    Stan: I got tired of waiting for the FCC to push out RSS for the Electronic Comment Filing System dockets, so I made my own site to do it: FCCfeeds.com.

    I have heard that the FCC is deploying a new version of ECFS internally that will include built-in RSS feeds and other features. Hopefully that will roll out shortly. Until then, my site will continue to scrape away.