Clearing the Cache: £3,817's Worth of "Rather Not Say, Thanks"
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, June 19 2009
- Guardian.co.uk has set up the citizenry to investigate MPs expenses, looking for questionable home repairs and the like. (Thanks Shaun Dakin) It seems, at first look, like a pretty spectacular system and well worth digging into a bit.
- YouTube is taking a curious approach to addressing videos that make use of copyrighted music that hasn't been "authorized" -- hitting the mute button.
- Relatedly, a bit of activism-via-Twitter-handle: the "real name" on the @boycottRIAA account was updated to "$80.000 a song" to reflect the decision just handed down that penalizes a Minnesota woman $2 million for downloading 24 songs.
- The White House blog announces a Bo "baseball card." That's an "official portrait," by the way. For a dog.
- Ari Herzog reviews the eye-catching new Utah.gov.
- The Sunlight Foundation thinks about bidding on a Recovery.gov overhaul...
- And celebrates the introduction of a "read the bill" law.
- BusinessWeek takes a look at outreach from the State Department to the tech world.
- Sarah Palin isn't following John McCain, nor vice versa.
- Here's a social media quiz for government folks.
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy covers the All for Good API/project, and the White House's Serve.gov site making use of it.
- Wired's Nick Thompson writes up his interview with Vivek Kundra.
- Here's a short and sweet interview with the co-creator of Ushahidi, the social reporting tool that grew out of post-election conflict in Kenya and later contributed to Vote Report India.
- If you want to work for the city of Bozeman, you're going to have to turn over your Facebook password, and more.
- The White House is collecting email addresses over health care reform via HealthReform.gov.
- It's looking like Organizing for America might have the funds to do its health-reform organizing and other work. (via Ben Smith)
- And the fun-poking at Rep. Pete Hoekstra for his tweets jumps to the TV box.
(With Micah Sifry)

