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- xsimonxcorex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Woah. This looks awesome. This could seriously change the way people think about politics.
- Charbax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Cool, they should also combine it with videos from Cspan as well as BitTorrent RSS feeds, broadcasting all video broadcasts about the different representatives and events using the Democracy Player.
Participatory Culture is really awesome.
Finance/Insur/RealEst and Occidental Petroleum should be financing this Web 2.0 project so it would totally replace representative democracy or at least improve it a lot. - AntBing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12We can only hope so. The unfortunate thing is that many Americans are probably too lazy to use this resource. Until the majority of voters demand accountability from our politicians corruption will continue as is.
- spcoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10we just might be seeing the beginning of a tipping point for political accountability sites. washingtonwatch.com has great information, as does followthemoney.org. hopefully nick and crew can pull in feeds from those folks and make this this sing even louder and clearer.
- Sdigga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Given the right circumstances, this has the potential to really straighten out some of the corruption
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So long as this stays unbiased - I think it's going to be a fantastic tool. Submitted information would be spectacular - so long as anything containing said biasm doesn't carry over.
- mike1630, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ahh. I almost submitted this. Why didn't it show up when I searched for it. Oh well.
Yes, this site is amazing! - Renton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Must be everybody clogging the tubes
http://www.opencongress.org/people/show/300094_ted_stevens - sunlightlabs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Charbax, you might be interested in Metavid [ http://metavid.ucsc.edu/ ]
- duniyadnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not sure if this is a similar site since I can't seem to open OpenCongress.org, but you could also check out http://www.govtrack.us which has a lot of information as well
- sunlightlabs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4While you're waiting for OpenCongress to reboot, why not hop on over to the Sunlight Foundation's Congressional Web Site Investigation project and lend a hand reviewing the tax-payer funded Web sites of Congress. http://www.sunlightlabs.com/research/sites/
- Prysorra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Don't Digg that ^^ down. Sister projects are worth more together than apart.
- buss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This seems really promising. I hope it can manage to be neutral and just inform us what's being voted on instead of politicking.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like how well it integrates with open secrets
- judsond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One good thing to watch on that site: Net neutrality law.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s215/show - charlietootunes, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1Yeehaa! Now, congress will have anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000 of us being there watchdogs! Roof, Roof, now let's take a huge bite out of real crime and real criminals.
- skipere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I do hope they adapt Digg style voting agenda , so we voice our opinion on the subject matters.
- dgaspard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wonder what politician is gonna buy these guys out first?
- bcardarella, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This sounds like a good idea but people need to stop over-using the term 'Open Source'. The worst was the article from last week about the Open Source political party.
(I'd post the link but Digg's search engine is bogged down at the moment...) - pitlord, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Wow!
It's just like digg!
Except it tracks the congress!
Now we need sites like this for the Administration and Judiciary.
Thank you Kevin and Alex.
^^ - bcardarella, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's based upon open-source software, the site itself is not open source. For example, I cannot modify the code of this particular site and upload it for general consumption. That is what open-source software is.
In fact, almost every website out there is based upon open source software (html, mysql, php, apache, cgi, perl, etc...) that doesn't make those sites open-source themselves. - sunlightlabs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks, Prysorra. The Sunlight Foundation http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/ did indeed fund OpenCongress.
- KnightMareInc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1omg those buttons almost look like digg's
- JAVandiver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ted Kennedy?! A must read!
- jeweke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A related tool which also covers state legislation is www.billhop.com.
- ravrore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This website is open-source software.
- stubear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well, that frees up my evenings to play World of WarCraft now. I was starting to work on and develop this very same idea. I might still because I don't want any political bent on the site, I just want to be able to track what our government is up to without anyone telling me how to think. The presence of a blog on this site, at least one so prominently displayed on the home page, compromises the integrity of the information. All in all though it appears to be a relatively well thought out site.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Note to self: When running a site that purports to provide open information on the US Congress, scale server and bandwidth capacity accordingly.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+136
have been accused of spousal abuse
7
have been arrested for fraud
19
have been accused of writing bad checks
117
have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3
have done time for assault
71,
repeat 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14
have been arrested on drug-related charges
8
have been arrested for shoplifting
21
currently are defendants in lawsuits, and
84
have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is?
Give up yet? . . .
It's the 535 members of the United States Congress.
The same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Congress?? Isn't that part of AIPAC and the multinational corporations (or are they the same thing?).
If you want to get something done in this country go via your nearest AIPAC office, here is the website
www.aipac.org AIPAC "America Israel Public Affairs Committee".
EOM - abrahamlincoln, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool site. Too bad it wasn't around six years ago, when Congress still mattered. No seriously, this is good stuff.
- Texas17, on 12/19/2008, -0/+0My father is running for Congress in the 14th Congressional district of Texas. .If you would like to check out his web page it is www.cherryforcongress.com.His page shows his views on issues that effect us here in the United States and what he will bring to Washington D.C. thanks
Corbin - smokecheck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 Wait..We have a Congress? Where?
- bigmammoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0specifically: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2006/10/19/new-version-of-democracy-player/
- blynder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Google's Cache is all jacked up!
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:I4S0HfYW2jAJ:news.opencongress.org/+opencongress+org&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us - jrcitizen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This site is nothing more than the Left's view of the political world and therefore BIASED. Sorry, but there is no Democracy in a one-sided view.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I love this site! Great post!
- BigSlacker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1No...skip some BS web site. The Congressional records have always been public. Read the stuff directly and not someone's filtered version.
- 186k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2To bad it's completely maintained by the left and democrats,
selectively pulling in information off the already available govt, created information sites.
Clever propaganda style mash-up with the blessings of Speaker Pelosi.
Nice try! - montiff, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4112 diggs and its down ?
Yay Government ! - one321, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I clicked on the link with a sense of surety that something like this would beat the digg effect. Guess not.
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