Over the weekend, as journalists, activist and government workers descended on George Washington University for the Sunlight Foundation's Transparency Camp event in Washington D.C., the group unveiled its new data services portal, which is meant to better showcase and encourage projects built around its APIs. "We want to demonstrate the power and importance of these APIs in open government work," said Liz Bartolomeo, Sunlight's media director. Read More

FWD.us, the Silicon Valley advocacy organization now focused on immigration form, is at least nominally pursuing a grassroots strategy. But it won't be welcome at one of this year's biggest and most influential grassroots political gatherings, Netroots Nation — even though the event will be in the heart of Silicon Valley. Read More

The Republican National Committee on Wednesday said that Liberty Works, the new Silicon Valley group formed by private equity investor Dick Boyce and supported by Karl Rove, is going to build the new data-sharing ... Read More

Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt took to YouTube Tuesday to endorse former Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford in his race to represent South Carolinians living in its First District.

President Obama is ready to nominate a former cable and wireless industry lobbyist to chair the Federal Communications Commission, according to a report Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal. Read More

A new television ad campaign recently launched by Mark Zuckerberg's advocacy group FWD.us has sparked off a backlash online from a progressive group and other Democrats who are upset that the group is running ads ... Read More

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working on a pilot project to better contextualize the data it publishes on consumer complaints about credit cards, said Scott Pluta, the CFPB's assistant director for the office of consumer response, in an interview Thursday. Read More

The city and county of San Francisco has just hired Marc Yves Touitou as its new chief information officer, Mayor Ed Lee's office announced Thursday. Touitou comes from the corporate world. He was previously the senior ... Read More

The folks who put together the DENT conference in March have posted the fireside chat that I conducted with Harper Reed online. Reed was Obama 2012's chief technology officer. In this talk, Reed explains why the campaign ... Read More