New Hampshire Legislature Passes Open-Source Software Bill
BY Raphael Majma | Friday, February 10 2012
The New Hampshire state legislature recently passed a bill that makes open data and open source software included by default in the state's procurement process.
The bill, HB 418, requires government officials to consider open-source products when making new technology acquisitions and only purchase products that comply with open data standards. Last year, Nick Judd covered how the New Hampshire legislature changed with the addition of several “geeks” to the House of Representatives and the passage of this new legislation shows a growing culture of friendliness to the tech concept of “open” in the statehouse. It is currently on its way to the governor's desk for signing.
Read MoreIn New Hampshire, Voters Send In the Geeks
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, February 2 2011
The New Hampshire state legislature, called the General Court, saw an influx of technologists this year. Photo: Joe Hardenbrook / Flickr The New Hampshire state legislature is a whole lot geekier this year. Swept into ... Read More
New Hampshire Opens its State's Legislative Data
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, February 1 2011
Chalk up a new one for the open-government-data geeks. In the past few days, New Hampshire's General Court, as the state legislature is officially known, started releasing data on legislation and legislators in ... Read More
Daily Digest: Google Announces Political Checkout
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, January 17 2008
Round ups of the conservative blogosphere make it clear that the GOP contest is wide open; Ron Paul supporters may be getting the shaft on Digg and PayPal; Ars Technica decides the New Hampshire vote controversy isn't a ... Read More
Fleshy Handshakes vs. Virtual Handshakes
BY Alan Rosenblatt | Thursday, January 10 2008
Declan McCullagh suggested yesterday that it was the offline efforts, not the online efforts that won the day in New Hampshire Tuesday: "In other words, it was anything but high-tech. Sure, there were robo-calls and ... Read More
Screenshots from the Final Sprint
BY Patrick Ruffini | Wednesday, January 9 2008
Over the last few days, I've been compiling screenshots of the candidate homepages and interesting things the candidates are doing on their sites to memorialize what these sites were like in the campaign's final sprint. ... Read More
Two Online Docs Go Long
BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, January 8 2008
I love political videos on YouTube as much as anyone, but sometimes the filmmaker in me yearns for something more than one- or two-minute voter-generated videos in support of one candidate or against another. The ... Read More
Obama Is King of Google, Duke of YouTube
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, January 7 2008
According to Google Trends, Barack Obama has been the subject of more Google searches than any other presidential candidate, and aside from Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee he blows everyone else out of the water. And he's ... Read More
Daily Digest: The Barocket Is Back!
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, January 7 2008
While we were sleeping, there was a Wyoming primary, but few candidates mention the results on their sites; The Barocket is back! Barack Obama's online popularity has skyrocketed since his win in Iowa; Facebook's role in ... Read More