Transparency Data

"Today we're releasing TransparencyData.com, a new service from the Sunlight Foundation, and technically the most challenging thing we've ever done. TransparencyData lets you query and download bulk data about transparency. We're launching with two datasets that have never been merged before, and without an unprecedented amount of access." -Clay Johnson, Sunlight Labs Blog

The site was designed by me :) and is the first project of mine at the Sunlight Foundation to go live.

Synergasm!

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Fox News Covers Scott Brown's Victory
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I love when John Stewart tears into Fox News :D

MyVomit-A-Pedia

This morning the White House streamed a video conference announcing the Open Government Initiative to promote transparency in government. During the announcement they used the government site MyFood-A-Pedia as an example of a data set that was released to the public. In this case one containing the nutritional data on foods commonly eaten and the site is to help with curbing childhood obesity issues. But seriously this is what you came up with?



This REALLY hurts my feelings (and makes it just a bit difficult to keep my lunch down). Not only is the logo and site awful, if you search common foods such as "Big Mac" or "Whopper" things people do eat that can lead to obesity issues it doesn't give you anything. Are you serious? The nutritional content for these foods is available on the back of the sheet that comes on your tray at McDonald's and Burger King. If their thinking is that people can just get this info elsewhere how helpful is it to make this site in the first place. It NEEDS to contain all the data, not just bits and pieces. And for God's sake get a real logo!

What a Beautiful Autumn-to-Summer Day?

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Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck's Protest Footage
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This was a ingenious personal follow up for me since last week I had dinner with a loved one who said, "I only watch Fox News because it is fair and unbiased." I think I may be related to seriously delusional people @_@.

The Empire Strikes Barack

I'm not one to usually for showing political views, mainly because a lot of the time it isn't worth arguing with someone about. This morning I was going through my almost endless list of emails from The Daily Heller when one on political satire had this video.



This is great!