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Recovery Reporting Report

now that we have started Collecting Stimulus Feeds, we quickly realized that there are not so many available (a total of 25 feeds currently), which of course also greatly diminishes the ability to collect useful amounts of data via these... Read more →

Collecting Stimulus Feeds

Finding Stimulus Feeds turns out to be quite a challenge. starting from our current set of 29 Agency Recovery Sites (i would not expect to find any feeds on the 50 State Recovery Sites), i started looking for stimulus feeds.... Read more →

Tracking Stimulus Sites and Feeds

writing about Tracking Stimulus Sites and the the problems of Finding Stimulus Sites and Finding Stimulus Feeds is one thing; doing it is another. as part of our initiative for better Stimulus Feed Guidelines and our general goal to make... Read more →

Federal Feed Cloud

one of the great things about web architecture is that it talks about loose coupling and how to set up an environment that focuses on cooperation, rather than integration. this is an essential difference, because integration always implies to give... Read more →

Flashy iPhone

while the next iPhone model may still be a couple of months away (version 3.0 of the OS was recently announced, and most people expect an updated phone version as well when the OS will be released this summer), there... Read more →

The Web According To Google

It is interesting to ask the question how the Web would look if it would be reinvented today. And of course this question would be answered very differently by different communities, depending on their focus and interest. Since Google is... Read more →

The Rise of The Micropayments

now that apple has revealed its plans for the iPhone 3.0 software, one of the exciting things about it is what apple calls In App Purchase: Allow users to purchase content or services from your application using the Store Kit... Read more →

iPhone 3.0

while i haven't touched my iPhone To Do List for quite a while, the rumors around the unveiling of the iPhone 3.0 software roadmap tomorrow made me look at the list again. even though i never updated the list for... Read more →

Stimulus Feed Guidelines

published february 18, the Initial Implementing Guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act guidelines created an impressive echo on the web, because they were an exciting sign that government openness and transparency make one significant further step, setting up... Read more →

Tracking Recovery Sites

Finding Stimulus Agencies is one problem, and when you have found them, Finding Stimulus Sites is the next problem. while working on the 587 agency names we extracted from usa.gov, and trying to match them up with the currently sparsely... Read more →