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Clearing the Cache: The View from the South Lawn

Nancy Scola | February 12, 2010 - 3:22pm | Email This!
Credit: The White House
  • After several seconds of confusion, it's become clear that @FentyDC isn't really that Fenty from DC. ("I appreciate the accolades on the snow removal, but please stop calling me "Mr. Plow.")
  • The thrill of Twitter seems to have worn off for possible New York Senate candidate Harold Ford.
  • Check out Track.DC.gov, a new portal onto government data that the city is promoting as "your resource as a District of Columbia resident to track how District Government is working for you." At first look, it looks a lot like the site is a place to point to city and apps already otherwise available on the web, as well as to post cute headshots of city officials.
  • Recovery.gov opens itself up so that stimulus recipients can edit their data bi-weekly, rather than having just a few weeks after posting to do it.
  • The White House blog piles on Newt Gingrich, fact-checking his Daily Show appearance and offering a subtle reminder of the nationality of the shoe bomber. British! Who knew.
  • The White House releases its 2o1o Economic Report of the President in Kindle, nook, Reader, and other eBook formats! Really, does it get any geekier? (via @anamariecox)
  • The White House's Office of Science and Techonology revamps its website, including moving its blog from WordPress to Drupal. (Their self-assessment: "Old site: So 1990s / New site: Totally 2010." It helps that 2010 still sounds futuristic.)
  • The White House's new Open Government Dashboard is, in the eyes of some, not really much of anything yet.
  • Must every item begin with the words "The White House"?
  • The White House press corps (dang!) is concerned that they're being foresaken in favor of Twitter and YouTube.
  • Tech Republican's boot camp at CPAC will be sponsored by Google.
  • Google picks up the social search service Aardvark.
  • LegalTube.com lets you audition your lawyers before you hire them.
  • And Barbie finds her next career. (via @tracyrusso) "Wearing a binary code patterned tee and equipped with all the latest gadgets including a smart phone, Bluetooth headset, and laptop travel bag, Computer Engineer Barbie® is geek chic."

We'll be off on Monday for Presidents Day, everybody. Have a good one.

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The Europe roundup: Are you ready for (y)EU?

Antonella Napolitano | February 17, 2010 - 3:35am | Email This!

Wondering what's going in European techpolitics? Starting today, PDF Europe will tell you more - three days a week!
Links and suggestions are welcome both by email and on twitter.
(thanks to Nancy Scola)
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EU | Are you ready for (y)EU?
Julien Frisch introduces the Web Communications team of the European Parliament.

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PdF Network | How to Use Data to Win Votes in 2010

Andel Koester | February 16, 2010 - 12:23am | Email This!

An earlier version of this post misstated the date of this call; it is happening this Thursday, Feb. 18th. We apologize for the error!

In 2004 and 2006, the Republican party led the political field in microtargeting, with big results.

In 2008, the opposition caught up. The Obama campaign, wrote Marc Ambinder, was "buttressed by a year-long, psychographic voter targeting and contact operation, the likes of which Democrats had never before participated in."

How can your campaign best use data to figure out how to reach and activate individual supporters -- without having to start from scratch every election cycle?

Join the PdF Network on Thursday, February 18 as Jeff Crigler, CTO and Bob Blaemire, Director of Business Development, Catalist, the architects of the Obama targeting effort, clue us in to latest advances in voter targeting.

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Gov 2.0 Camp LA, Extended Remix

Sarah Granger | February 9, 2010 - 12:21am | Email This!

Craig Newmark flew straight to Los Angeles from Dublin in order to share his thoughts on using technology and social media to improve government at the Gov 2.0 Camp LA this past weekend. Newmark, who writes frequently on the topic and has recently been quite active in bringing attention to problems in the Veterens Affairs area, came to speak from a customer service perspective. Although I've seen Craig speak a few times about that, he always adds new anecdotes and provides additional angles on the problem showing how much he thinks about it on a regular basis. But for him, it boils down to the basics. "A lot of customer service is obvious stuff. It's just listening to people." This was the afternoon core conversation on Saturday. (See my earlier post about the conference in general and what transpired the first morning.)

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Clearing the Cache: Yes, Logo

Nancy Scola | February 18, 2010 - 3:35pm | Email This!
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  • Open gov gets a logo.*
  • Looks like they could use that out in Wyoming.
  • And Illinois.
  • The VAN gets an iPhone app.
  • The FCC chair says that the national broadband plan scheduled for delivery next month (who else just can't wait?!) will include a proposal to bring 100 megabit per second broadband to 100 million American households.
  • Progress on the Scott Brown website front! If you can call this progress.
  • Evan Bayh, not so much a fan of the bloggers.
  • If he were British, he might have to quit there too: looks like bloggers are going to be invited into Parliament.
  • And finally, Martin Bosworth, a well-known and well-liked figure on the online left, passed away last night. Rest in peace, Martin.

*Note: Our Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry are senior advisors to the Sunlight Foundation.

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Clearing the Cache: Where's Reagan?

Nancy Scola | February 16, 2010 - 3:52pm | Email This!

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  • Direct mail guru Richard Viguerie emails about the Young Cons, a "musical duo of Dartmouth grads [whose] new YouTube video, 'The Problem,' uses hip hop to take Ronald Reagan's message to the Millennial Generation." And "[j]udging by the group's growing popularity, the message seems to be resonating with the under 30 crowd." One thing's for sure, it'll stick in your head. And yes, the Gip makes several Waldo-like appearances.
  • Some tips for creating non-profit online communities.
  • Still no website for Sen. Scott Brown.
  • Here's how to search Buzz.
  • Game on. That Atlantic session on the state of tech that we've mentioned has been rescheduled for a week from today.
  • And here's another event worth noting: a session on "transparency, accountability, [and] collaboration" in both the U.S. and U.K., featuring Deputy U.S. CTO Andrew McLaughlin and the Prospect's James Crabtree.

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The Europe roundup: Your country, your call

Antonella Napolitano | February 24, 2010 - 3:54am | Email This!
  • Ireland | Your country, your call... to move Ireland forward
    Ireland government recently launched "Your country, your call", a competition whose goal is "to pick two truly transformational proposals so big that, when implemented, could secure prosperity and jobs for Ireland. Proposals that could help change the way we do things, allow businesses to grow, employment to be created and prosperity to flourish". The ambitious iniative has the backing of a wide range of companies and individuals and will offer two winners a cash prize of €100,000 each and up to €500,000 for implementation of their ideas.
    GovFresh explains in depth how the 'inspirational competition' works.
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The Europe roundup: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Antonella Napolitano | February 26, 2010 - 5:02am | Email This!
  • E.U. | Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition
    Last week a document on Internet policy has been realeased by the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council. The document addresses Member States about illegal activities and how to fight them, but there seem to be a little confusion: copyright infringments, racist speech and child pornography are all together in the "Internet frame". A way to justify the imposition of Internet filtering?
    Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of the advocacy group La Quadrature du Net, has very strong words on the issue, defining the document 'disturbing'.
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The Europe roundup: There's (open data) potential, still...

Antonella Napolitano | February 21, 2010 - 1:22pm | Email This!
  • Norway | When it comes to open data, potential is not enough.
    Norway and the other Scandinavian countries are potential open data champions, thanks to an established tradition of transparency in government. And it's true that there's a lot going on when it comes to open data: some months ago PDF speaker Bente Kalsnes listed an incredible amount of projects and initiatives.
    But apparently it's not enough to reach a noteworthy level.
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Clearing the Cache: "Save Our School"

Nancy Scola | March 4, 2010 - 4:42pm | Email This!

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  • Protests against school funding cuts in California are being documented on YouTube.
  • Where everyone (English-speaking, at least) now gets autocaptioning.
  • Using tech to support dissent beyond California.
  • Sebelius webchatted about health care reform.
  • How information flows during election observation: some notes from Kenya.
  • Introducing Distraction.gov.
  • Sunlight posts its House expenditure database.
  • And thinking of open analytics as part of open government.

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Clearing the Cache: Frightful

Nancy Scola | February 10, 2010 - 2:52pm | Email This!
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  • Wee bit of snow in our nation's capital.
  • A "Free the Hikers" YouTube campaign picks up steam.
  • TechStat is like CompStat for government IT projects, and Vivek Kundra wants to do more of it.
  • FoxNews traces the supposed conspiracy behind an anti-Tea Party site, but Megan McArdle finds their protestations against astroturfing a bit rich.
  • And French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is getting made fun of for referencing a supposed thinker whose own Wikipedia entry notes that he doesn't actually exist, at least not in corporeal form.
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The Europe roundup: The Prime Minister is in the playground

Antonella Napolitano | March 5, 2010 - 3:48am | Email This!

This Friday we have a special "Scandinavian edition" of the Europe roundup, brought to you by PDF friend Bente Kalsnes.
If you want you can send us stories or interesting links to look into. And don't forget to check our twitter account!

  • Norway | The Prime Minister is in the playground
    The Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is inviting bloggers to his office this week to discuss about the government's new website, Samarbeid for Arbeid (which means, more or less, "working for collaboration"). The website is made of a blog and a Twitter aggregator, sorted by four topics. If bloggers or Twitter users want the Prime Minister to read their posts, they can register the blog or tag tweets with predefined keywords.
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PdF 2010: Early-Early-Bird Tickets are Sold Out!

Micah L. Sifry | February 12, 2010 - 2:49pm | Email This!

We're pleased (or sorry) to report that the block of tickets on sale at extra discounted "early-early-bird" rates for Personal Democracy Forum 2010 has sold out -- in fact, demand was greater than expected!

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Clearing the Cache: Punt

Nancy Scola | February 25, 2010 - 3:33pm | Email This!
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  • DC's public safety division has some fun with its 404 page.
  • The White House urges folks to participate in federal agencies' idea-gathering phase.
  • Dozens of independent federal agencies haven't put up open government pages, as they were encouraged to do.
  • Maybe that's something that Beth Noveck, Deputy U.S. CTO for open government, will talk about in her upcoming session on "transparent government" with the Long Now Foundation.
  • As you move from the so-called Silent Generation (65+) down the Millennials (18-29), finds Pew, faith in government's potential to make things better steadily increases. (This is an extra-recommended click-through. Lots of good data in that post.)
  • Here's where you go to talk about the intersection of social media and law enforcement.
  • An email -- direct from the outbox of "The Internet" itself! -- announces the dates for Politics Online 2010. Says 'Net, it'll be April 19th and 20th in DC.
  • DC's OCTO holds a broadband summit.
  • Mapping drone strikes.
  • Jon Henke, Michael Turk, and Matthew Dybwad join the team at the digital media firm CRAFT.
  • Some tweeters kindly request that CNN's best political team on television shut it during today's health care summit.
  • TechRepublican's Meghann Olshefski recaps CPAC's digital bootcamp.
  • Is your outreach appropriately diverse?
  • The Office of National Coordinator of Health IT is now on Twitter, at @ONC_HealthIT.
  • North Carolina Senate candidate Ken Lewis wants you to ask him anything.
  • And finally, a bit of housekeeping -- that's it for me until Monday, as I'm taking a long weekend trip to the west coast. Have a good one.

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The Europe roundup: Make it short. Sort of.

Antonella Napolitano | February 18, 2010 - 1:23pm | Email This!
  • U.K. | What kind of campaign will Britain see?
    On the Guardian Kevin Anderson reflects on how (and if) British political operatives and activists will adapt Obama's strategies in this campaign: "If Facebook is good at organising groups, are there constituencies where issue-oriented organising might play a role in the outcome of an election? If the debates are the real innovation in this election, what role will the Twitter "spin room" play in public opinion?".
    Guido Fawkes, one of the top political conservative bloggers, leaves the first comment: "TV is king". What if?
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The Europe roundup: Is transparency compatible with “robots.txt”?

Antonella Napolitano | March 1, 2010 - 5:31am | Email This!
  • Italy | Is transparency compatible with “robots.txt”?
    PDF friends David Osimo and Alberto Cottica point us out a story from Italy about a “transparency project” launched by the Italian government.
    The initiative, launched some time ago, aimed at publishing relevant information about civil servants, such as paycheck and days of absence. But, as this article points out, most part of this data (including those about the ministry itself) has been published in a directory which is not possible to reach by search engines – using the robots.txt file with “disallow:/operazionetrasparenza/”.
    Here’s David’s take on the story: “The implication is that searching with google the name of a person, you will not find these data. You will have to know that the person is employed by a public administration, and visit the website and check the name. This is obviously limiting the real transparency of the public data.
    I assume the excuse is related to privacy: there are different privacy implications if a personal information is searchable or not. This is an important matter, which I would like to understand better. Yet in this case it appears as an excuse. Real transparency needs machine-readable data, and using robots.txt is a clear contradiction of the principle of transparency."
    Plus, David has another point to make: why is transparency applied first of all to (against) public sector workers and their behaviour instead on how the P.A. spend public money?
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The Europe roundup: The controversial case of net neutrality

Antonella Napolitano | March 3, 2010 - 2:57am | Email This!
  • Spain | Net Neutrality: a controversy that needs a political intervention?
    In Spain there's lot of talking about Internet business models and the neutrality of the operators that provide the connectivity infrastructure. And things might change quickly, according to what César Alierta, president of the telco Telefónica, declared last month: "Clearly, Internet search engines use our networks without paying anything, which is lucky for them and a curse for us. But that can not continue, we are the networks (...), we do it all. That will change, I believe it”.
    But some public servants don't seem to agree: Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra, former president of the Spanish region of Extremadura, wrote an op-ed on El País, asking the government and politicians to work on the controversial topic.
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This Thursday: How the GOP Dominated Online to Win MA Senate Race

Andel Koester | March 1, 2010 - 12:13pm | Email This!

Just a few short weeks ago, Scott Brown’s Republican upset in the race to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat had many wondering if the age of liberal internet dominance is over.

Is the GOP gaining an online advantage? Certainly, “the Internet seems to have equipped Brown to catch, collect, and amplify the enthusiasm that grew around his campaign -- both pro-Brown energy, and anti-Coakley, anti-Obama, anti-health care reform (and anti-Republican establishment) sentiment.”

And if the rapid rise of the Tea Party movement is any indication, “increased visibility leads to increased viability.”

Join the PdF Network on Thursday, March 4 as Rob Willington, Scott Brown Web Strategist and Executive Director, RebuildTheParty.com shares how the internet is changing conservative campaigning.

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Clearing the Cache: Dueling Uploads [UPDATED]

Nancy Scola | February 23, 2010 - 3:12pm | Email This!
  • White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer uses the White House blog to tweak Republicans for not matching the Obama administration's recent posting of a health care package. "Previously we were told this was the House Republican bill," needled Pfeiffer. "Is it still?" (via Ari Melber)
  • Culture shock: an Iraqi IT intern brought over by the State Department learns how to handle a Mac.
  • A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing tomorrow takes up the question of what are the proper commercial uses of the fact that your gadgets know where you are. (via Leslie Harris)
  • More on mobile in the McDonnell win.
  • And USA.gov is looking for some help making videos that showcase the site's wares.
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The Europe roundup: We can fix this only together...with or without you?

Antonella Napolitano | March 8, 2010 - 4:12am | Email This!
  • Spain | We can fix this only together...with or without you?
    In the past days the Spanish Chamber of Commerce launched an initiative to raise the confidence of citizens affected by the economic crisis. The campaign is called "Esto solo lo arreglamos entre todos" ("We can fix this only together") and it is willing to be "the biggest social therapy of the history", in the words of Susana Diaz, one of the consultant working on the project. The campaign consists of a website and several ads by both anonymous citizens and celebrities (the ad campaign costed 4 millions, according to Expansión).
    But so far it has not been well received by lots of citizens who felt betrayed by this sort of sharing responsibilities: on Facebook it is easy to find groups protesting against the campaign, with several hundreds of fans each. The protesters complain that the campaign is opportunist and demagogic, even creating a website called "We can fix this only *without them"*" to send "a message loud and clear to the organizers of the ad campaign and the state: we are not the problem.".
    (thanks to Anna Bellorbì)
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Clearing the Cache: Putting the Pieces Back Together

Nancy Scola | March 1, 2010 - 2:30pm | Email This!
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  • Google rolls out a People Finder to connect folks left disconnected by this weekend's earthquake in Chile.
  • Call him #PhilippeReines: one of Secretary Clinton's tweet-averse top communications advisors at the State Department, reports Politico, is wading into the Twitter waters by guest posting on @dipnote during the Secretary's trip through South America this week. A sample: "#PhilippeReines: In San Juan, refueling. Never dull moment w SHRC-adding stop tmrw pm-Buenos Aires, to meet w Pres. of Argentina de Kirchner."
  • More progress on the Scott Brown Senate website front!
  • Are we losing the cyber war?
  • A review of John McCain's video wall.
  • A look at the brewing Coffee Party "movement."
  • The New York Times' coders upgrade their Congress API.
  • Hill Republicans do a concerted Twitter push.
  • More tweets were sent that linked to SunlightFoundation.com/Live than WhiteHouse.gov/Live during last week's health care powwow, and other insights into exactly how Sunlight's live meta-summit worked.
  • The modern twist on the timeless student protest: what they're protesting is AT&T's poor cell phone coverage. (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
  • And a campaign veteran sizes up the new MiniVAN: "For old timers who chased around with sheaves of paper and clipboards, this is as big as news gets."

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The Europe roundup: Creating a more transparent Frankfurt

Antonella Napolitano | March 10, 2010 - 3:49am | Email This!
  • Germany | Creating a more transparent Frankfurt
    Frankfurt-Gestalten.de (Create Frankfurt) is a new space for citizen participation: the aim is tracking local political decisions, making them more transparent and motivate citizens to connect locally and to discuss on how to change their neighborhood.
    The website offers information in form of geo-referenced data and documents properly tagged. It also offer an email service and space for comments and proposals.
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Clearing the Cache: Brought to You by the Number...

Nancy Scola | March 9, 2010 - 4:12pm | Email This!
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  • Over at the White House, they're trying out a new web campaign to push out into the digital ether, every day, one new number highlighting some key fact of their health care push; "1,115" is their number for the dollars spent, on average, for employer-based health coverage per family each month. The number will live in giant font, it seems, at the top of WhiteHouse.gov each day, and will go out via Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks.
  • If a social network worked for the Obama campaign, why can't it work for a Polish social justice movement?
  • And holding staff tweets against their bosses.

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Clearing the Cache: What's that Saying About How Infrastructure Revitalization Begins at Home?

Nancy Scola | March 10, 2010 - 4:20pm | Email This!
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  • For just under half an hour yesterday afternoon, there was no power in the Longworth House Office Building. In the United States of America.
  • New to Twitter is Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson (@lisapjackson), who is looking to "expand the way we thinking about environmentalism." She might want to talk to Cory Booker about how you go about using Twitter to do some reputational enhancement.
  • After some further noodling, Kevin Drum decides that "anonymous" blogger briefings inside the corridors of power can, indeed, be worthwhile.
  • Parsing what John Yoo has to say about what became of his Justice Department emails.
  • The AP analyzes White House tweet spin.
  • And, completing our House of Representatives news sandwich, the House has launched a new caucus on global Internet freedom. There are only two members on board as of now, with Republican Chris Smith of New Jersey and Democrat David Wu of Oregon. But it's still early.
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