This is terrific: The Office of the Federal Register has created an Electronic Public Inspection Desk to provide free worldwide electronic access to public documents. For the first time in t...
 … is a “handbook designed to help investigative journalists track corruption across borders.” The free handbook, in PDF format, is published by the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism ...
… is available in PDF files on the U.S. Treasury’s web site. You can also subscribe to email updates.  [via Twitter]
Google has rejiggered its blog search home page: Adapting some of the technology pioneered by Google News, we're now showing categories on the left side of the website and organizing the blo...
I have a perverse admiration for spam blogs that combine snippets from dozens of genuine blogs to improve their search engine cred. This one showed up in a Google Alert over the weekend: Year old ...
A big part of journalism is taking readers places they can't go themselves. For that reason I love the way newspaper sites like USA Today and The New York Times are using panoramic pictures. Her...
... from The Uncharted Backwaters of the Unfashionable.
Four Princeton University researchers say government should devote its time to making its data easily available rather than building its own Web sites. They say "Private actors, either nonprofit or...
The Sunlight Foundation's Party Time documents "the Political Partying Circuit." Sunlight's Party Time is a project to track parties thrown at the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventi...
Recently I wrote about Web sites that help you get better repair estimates for your car. After I wrote that I heard from one of the people behind Open Car Price, which lets you share and compare ca...
Two legal blogs have teamed up to post videos online "of opening and closings of the more significant and noteworthy Kentucky cases." The Kentucky Trial Court Review, a newsletter that summarizes t...
... offers "Tips and Resources for Opposition Researchers." The blog is written by Larry Zilliox, a Virginia private investigator and the author of "The Opposition Research Handbook: A Guide to Pol...
... is a new paper by Sanford C. Gordon of New York University's Department of Politics. The abstract: The 2007 U.S. Attorney firing scandal has raised the specter of political bias in the prosec...
... from OECD Factblog. Options covered include Excel, Flickr, Google spreadsheet, Zoho, Swivel, Many-Eyes, Processing, jpGraph, the Google Chart API and the Yahoo! Chart API. Everyday, bloggers ...
The U.S. Justice Department report (PDF) on how former Justice Department staffer Monica Goodling vetted potential employees for proof they were "good Americans" summarizes how she used the Web and...
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