Technology Liberation Front - Latest Comments in Princeton Paper on Government Transparency

Re: Princeton Paper on Government Transparency

jerrybrito — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:56:28 -0000

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.

Re: Princeton Paper on Government Transparency

MikeT — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:39:04 -0000

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.

Re: Princeton Paper on Government Transparency

dmarti — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:56:10 -0000

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.