Mighell spots, Gov Track, a super tracker

Tom Mighell's weekly e-newsletter points us to GovTrack, a very useful web
resource -- a blog plus you might say, with a great deal of useful
information about pending federal legislation. http://www.govtrack.us/  Like
Tom says about his e-newsletter, GovTrack is free! Follow these links to
learn more about GovTrack:

2005-01-28. There was a short New York Times article
http://www.govtrack.us/articles/20050126nyt.xpd in yesterday's Circuits
section about GovTrack, and as a result the number of registered users on
the site has topped 1,000! This item at Gov Track:

http://www.govtrack.us/blog/?entry=http://govtrack.us/blog/6dc49a7d-99e4-4d6
f-881c-3a1cae354ff2
Or tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/3lgq3

2005-01-22. Now that GovTrack is pretty much functionally complete, I'm
[Joshua Tauberer, GovTrack's creator is] shifting my focus to how websites
with similar goals as GovTrack can share data, collaborate, and generally
benefit from each other.  This item at Gov Track:

http://www.govtrack.us/blog/?entry=http://govtrack.us/blog/61e3d604-7310-4b5
1-acde-43e557d755c6
Or tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/4ol3h

Perhaps the bloggers and webmasters among us can learn how to maximize RSS
and other inter-web stratagies for collaboration between sites from what
GovTrack has done and will be doing with other sites to share data and
otherwise cooperate.

From Tom's e-newsletter: GovTrack.us does a couple of things. First, you'll
be able to track federal legislation, as well as just about anything
happening on Capitol Hill, and you can set up an RSS feed to monitor your
searches. You can also track what other people think of legislation and
other government matters, by monitoring the entries of bloggers. A great use
of weblog and RSS technology to help individuals in their legal research.
http://www.govtrack.us/

To subscribe to Tom's excellent e-newsletter, Internet Legal Research
Weekly, just visit http://www.inter-alia.net to sign up.

John

P.S. I am energized with the prospect of doing one of our gala, week-long
seminars on the topic of RSS and other forms of collaboration between blogs
and web sites. Drop me a note if you would be willing to assist. Perhaps we
can get Joshua of GovTrack fame to join us. More about Joshua and all that
he is doing http://taubz.for.net/ J.

John DeBruyn, Denver CO USA




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