Unbelievable: Texas House, Quit Snitching

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Sunday September 30, 2007 · 1:35 PM PDT

2007/09/30 · 13:35

This is pretty amazing:

Despite passing rules that forbid mulitple voting, it appears that the practice is standard in the Texas state legislature, to the point of absurdity.

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Monday September 03, 2007 · 7:54 PM PDT

2007/09/03 · 19:54

Among my favorite blogs lately has been Future Perfect, apparently a Nokia researcher’s personal brainstorming repository. I enjoy it so much because it reminds me of how I take notes, through either practical categorization or an off-the-cuff to-be-revisited kind of personalized conceptual banter that "Future Perfect" offers frequently. I find this refreshing because I’m a fan of unfinished thoughts, which are often be more productive to share than polished ones, if only because they arise so much more frequently.

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Thursday May 10, 2007 · 6:24 AM PDT

2007/05/10 · 06:24

This will be a quick diary, because I'm about to head over to the Heritage Foundation to speak on a panel about the Open House Project, with Matt Stoller (myDD), Rob Bluey (Heritage), and David All (David All Group).

I'll be speaking on behalf of The Sunlight Foundation, for which I now work, and also as someone who got involved in Washington politics by writing and organizing on Daily Kos.

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Friday May 04, 2007 · 1:25 PM PDT

2007/05/04 · 13:25

I really owe everybody here a big update.
And my gratitude.

I started my new job yesterday, which I got largely through my participation on Daily Kos.

Since gaining employment through blogging is probably pretty rare, I'd like to explain how a few things that I wrote here ended up getting me a job in DC.

I'd also like to explain how my job as Program Director for the Sunlight Foundation might have to do with the Daily Kos community.

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Sunday February 18, 2007 · 1:17 PM PST

2007/02/18 · 13:17

(Cross Posted from The Open House Project)

Whose responsibility is it to publish information about the government?

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Friday February 09, 2007 · 1:45 AM PST

2007/02/09 · 01:45

I'd like to introduce the Daily Kos community to the Open House Project. We are creating a report on attainable internet reforms for the House of Representatives, based on the input of a bipartisan group of contributors. This is a project of the Sunlight Foundation, and my involvement in the project is a direct result of my writing on Daily Kos, and starting the Congressional Committees Project.

The introductory press release includes quotes from Speaker Pelosi, Ellen Miller (Executive Director of the Sunlight Foundation), and from me (I'm John Wonderlich, one of the organizers of the project, along with Matt Stoller of MyDD).

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Monday February 05, 2007 · 8:53 PM PST

2007/02/05 · 20:53

I recently had a discussion with the communications director of a house committee about liveblogging committee hearings. It seems that Hill staffers aren't just reading blogs: some of them are thinking about how blogs can bring people closer to the legislature.

I'd like to talk about what bloggers may be doing soon in committee hearings: liveblogging.

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Monday January 01, 2007 · 4:06 PM PST

2007/01/01 · 16:06

Ready to move on? Good. Me too. We worked hard for the last year-plus for a reason, and our new democratic majority is moving in this week. Remember thinking that a majority in the House and Senate was just unrealistic? Me too.

This diary is your preview into what's going to happen in the next few weeks, as we realize just what we've won. Wittgenstein wrote that "Explanations come to an end somewhere." So does meta. Allow me to show you the way out.

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Wednesday December 20, 2006 · 6:59 PM PST

2006/12/20 · 18:59

At any time we perceive only a tiny portion of our environment, and trick ourselves into thinking that the way we choose to name things is the true way, the best way. To doubt our functioning schemas too often would be to cripple ourselves: we trust our in the fragile worlds we delimit in order to function.

We talk about the size of the federal deficit, the cost of a cruise missle, or the population of England for a reason: these sets of data have a real impact in our world. To focus on the number of sleeping cats in Pennsylvania isn't particularly helpful.

Sometimes we have to step back, though...

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Monday December 11, 2006 · 4:34 PM PST

2006/12/11 · 16:34

I've got a lot to talk to you all about.

We're in a position to help shape the way the 110th Congress communicates with the internet. I write "we" because I am assembling a package of suggestions and recommendations to help our new congress commune effectively with the internet. I was asked to do this by one of Speaker-to-be Pelosi's staff members.

This isn't a pie-in-the-sky unsolicited suggestion box. Read on if you're unfamiliar with what's going on...

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Friday December 08, 2006 · 5:10 PM PST

2006/12/08 · 17:10

As one of the main organizers of the Congressional Committees Project, I recently wrote a diary about committee transparency. A few days later, I received an email from a member of Speaker-to-be Pelosi's staff, who had read my diary on transparency, and wanted to discuss our project with me.

I just got done with that conversation. What we discussed suggests great things about what we all won in November.

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Sunday November 26, 2006 · 5:11 PM PST

2006/11/26 · 17:11

As we have strained to keep up with the growth and potential of our Congressional Committees Project, we have encountered great success. We have a fabulous wiki page, and most Congressional Committees have been claimed, with some already having detailed committee-specific wiki pages created by their adopters.

Google "congressional committees project," or "adopt a committee," and we're first. Google the name of the committee I've cited above, and that webpage is the ninth entry--and we've existed for only a few weeks.

The potential for this project is staggering. Distributed congressional oversight has the potential to change the way that we're conscious of our legislature and its processes, but only if we're aware of and engaged with the limitations on our views into our Congress.

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