Clearing the Cache: Step (1) Build an API...
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, June 22 2009
- YouTube builds on the All for Good API -- a project that grew out of the Obama transition, is backed by Google and Craigslist Foundation, and that's now powering the White House's Serve.gov -- to launch Video Volunteers.
- Craig Stoltz expands upon the idea that FCC.gov's miserable UI is a tool of exclusion.
- Relatedly, here's a taste of today's FCC daily e-newsletter: "Report No: 47011 Released: 06/22/2009. BROADCAST ACTIONS. MB/ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291496A1.pdf / http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291496A2.txt" Informative, no?
- Schwarzenegger tweets about his plane's emergency landing, complete with a photo.
- Vivek Kundra meets with federal CIOs gone by.
- The Guardian's MP expense investigation tool proves popular: "Almost 20,000 people have taken part in gathering facts for the online project and about 160,000 pages have been examined."
- And the White House launches Phase III of its Open Government Initiative.