Comments on: Kudos for MAPLight’s visualization of Congressional activity

By: bass guitar dvd

bass guitar dvd — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:03:27 +0000

There that should be to be something faulty when using the link you posted, it’s sending me to your main page, and I cannot see what the link is ought to be.

By: quiddity

quiddity — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:25:49 +0000

Thanks. I thought it might be something like that.
and yeah, I’ve been spidering old geocities bookmarks recently, before they disappear forever…

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:25:16 +0000

Aarrggh! It’s a sore point. InfoWorld says it will fix all the links that it recently broke. I am waiting impatiently. Meanwhile: http://jonudell.net/umlaut.swf.

By: quiddity

quiddity — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:34:29 +0000

Hi. I wondering what happened to your heavy metal umlaut screencast that used to be at http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/01/22.html? It seems to have disappeared without a trace?

By: Chris.Weekly.org - A Web Space » A response to Taplin’s post on Government Power

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:04:39 +0000

[...] will help. Jon Udell’s recent writings on GovTrack and MAPLight are relevant here, see e.g. http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/07/23/kudos-for-maplights-visualization-of-congressional-activity/ and the Change Congress movement founded by Larry Lessig http://change-congress.org/ is a force for [...]

By: The Congressional content management system « Jon Udell

The Congressional content management system « Jon Udell — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:46:52 +0000

[...] I noted with respect to my recent legislative excursion, every Wikipedia author/editor takes for granted the ability to review the entire history of an [...]

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:51:35 +0000

“http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/07/why-congress-needs-a-version-c.html”

Thanks for the reminder. I read that, but didn’t make the connection. Yes, absolutely, the version control technology that geeks take for granted is so desperately needed in other realms.

By: Dan Lewis

Dan Lewis — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:15:57 +0000

This occurred to me while reading your post: Google for [congressional legislation version control] and up pops this post by Tim O’Reilly from last year. I had never seen it before, but I think it’s right on the money.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/07/why-congress-needs-a-version-c.html

By: A conversation with Joshua Tauberer about GovTrack « Jon Udell

A conversation with Joshua Tauberer about GovTrack « Jon Udell — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:12:09 +0000

[...] as the bill I’d been tracking using that system made headlines. Had I not been doing some investigation into legislative support for alternative biomass heating systems, I’d never have known that [...]