What Makes Someone a Bubble Baron?
The Bubble Barons investigation launched last week by AlterNet and LittleSis.org has gotten off to a fast start, with over 250 citizen journalists signed up to track down information on
Project update: over 100 White House visitors profiled
Last Thursday, inspired by the release of White House visitor logs, we launched a new project to compile information on visitors to the Obama White House. In less than a
New project: Tracking Obama insiders
It’s been almost one year since Obama’s inauguration — and one year since LittleSis launched. At this time last year we were scrambling to add up-to-date data about the past
The White House’s Google Calendar
The White House’s most recent monthly release of visitor records was extraordinary in that it included a comprehensive dump of records for the second half of September 2009. Previous releases
Wall Street’s tunnel to the White House
Are Treasury officials and their friends able to avoid appearing on the White House’s newly-released visitor logs? I raise this question because there is a tunnel between the White House
Catch this CrocTail
Last week our friends at CorpWatch unveiled their great new API, which extracts corporate subsidiary information from SEC filings and makes the data available for the world to navigate in
WaPo asks: Who Runs Gov?
Yesterday’s launch of WhoRunsGov, a Washington Post site, marks an interesting development in the history of the transparency movement: it is a groundbreaking attempt by mainstream media to shed light