:: letsryan ::

:: Thursday, December 04, 2003 ::

Opensecrets.org--Money in politics dataAny of you looked at this site before?

By the by, I'm now working on a series about lobbying (from a basic tutorial up to real-life examples and the future of lobbying) so if anyone stumbles across anything, I'd appreciate a forward...
:: ranger 9:01 PM [+] ::
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MIT Web Site Gathers And Displays Information On Government. Ah, the turning of the tables. This reminds me a bit of the Harper's article I read some years back arguing that privacy was an unusual blip in human history, and the best way to deal with its erosion was to completely abandon the concept, but in exchange make everything transparent, so you can watch the watchers, as it were. The reasoning was hanging on to privacy only protected those with the power to watch others, basically. Fascinating article.
The MIT Government Awareness Project can be found here.
:: ranger 8:51 PM [+] ::
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